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65th Congress \ 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



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WILLIAM ATKINSON JONES 

(Late a Representative from Virginia) 



MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 






DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 



Proceedings in the House 
February 16, 1919 



Proceedings in the Senate 
April 17, 1918 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 













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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 6,9 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Andrew J. Montague, of Virginia 13 

Mr. Horace M. Towner, of Iowa 21 

Mr. Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee 27 

Mr. James L. Slayden, of Texas . 32 

Mr. Edward W. Saunders, of Virginia 43 

Mr. Jaime C. de Veyra, of the Philippine Islands. - 48 

Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 55 

Mr. Teodoro R. Yangco, of the Philippine Islands. 58 

Mr. Felix Cordova Davila, of Porto Rico 62 

Mr. Walter A. Watson, of Virginia 67 

Mr. Schuyler 0. Bland, of Virginia 71 

Proceedings in the Senate 77 

Proceedings in the Philippine Islands 79 

Message from the House of Representatives of Porto Rico.. 7 

Message from the Legislature of the Philippines _. 8 

Memorial by Erving Winslow, secretary of the Anti-Imperi- 
alist League 37 



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DEATH OF HON. WILLIAM A. JONES 



Proceedings in the House of Representatives 

Wednesday, April 17, 1918. 

Mr. Flood. Mr. Speaker, the Members of the Virginia 
delegation and the House have heard with profound 
regret of the death of one of its most beloved Members, 
the distinguished gentleman representing the first con- 
gressional district of Virginia, Hon. William A. Jones, 
who had the distinction of the longest continuous service 
of the membership of the present House. I offer the fol- 
lowing resolutions : 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. William A. Jones, a Representative from the 
State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That a committee of 18 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 

Accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) the 
House adjourned until to-morrow, Thursday, April 18, 
1918, at 12 o'clock noon. 

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Thursday, April 18, 1918. 
The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

We bless Thee, Infinite Spirit, our Heavenly Father, for 
that long line of patriots, statesmen, and soldiers who 
by their daring and heroism made our Nation possible, a 
government of the people, by the people, for the people, 
and who have brought it through every crisis it has been 
called upon to meet. 

We thank Thee for what they did, but more for that 
deep and hidden principle within which prompted them 
to high resolves and self-sacrifice, which while it lives in- 
sures the life and perpetuity of our Republic. 

With profound sorrow and keen regret we are called 
upon to record the death of a veteran Member of this 
House, who, though modest, was ever firm in his convic- 
tions; strong, yet unobtrusive; a patriot who served his 
State and Nation with all the fervor of soul. Comfort his 
colleagues, friends, and those to whom he was near anil 
dear with the imperishable hope that he lives to a larger 
life in one of God's many mansions; through Him who 
died that we might live. Amen. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Senate resolution 227 

Hesolved, That the Senate baa heard with profound sorrow the 
announcement of the death of Hon. WlLUAM A. Joxks, a Repre- 
sentative from the State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That a committee of six Senators he appointed by 
the Vice President to join a committee appointed by the House 
of Representatives to attend the funeral. 



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Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy 
thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

And that in compliance under the second resolution the 
Vice President had appointed as a committee on the part 
of the Senate Mr. Swanson, Mr. Overman, Mr. Underwood, 
Mr. Henderson, Mr. Norris, and Mr. McNary. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Chair appoints the fol- 
lowing committee to attend the funeral of the late Repre- 
sentative Jones, of Virginia : Mr. Holland, Mr. Montague, 
Mr. Watson of Virginia, Mr. Saunders of Virginia, Mr. 
Glass, Mr. Harrison of Virginia, Mr. Carlin, Mr. Slemp, Mr. 
Flood, Mr. Garrett of Tennessee, Mr. Slayden, Mr. Austin, 
Mr. Helm, Mr. Towner, Mr. Talbott, Mr. Cooper of Wiscon- 
sin, Mr. Estopinal, and Resident Commissioners de Veyra, 
Yangco, and Davila. 

Saturday, April 20, 1918. 
The Speaker pro tempore. The Chair lays before the 
House a communication, which the Clerk will report. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

San Juan, P. R., April 19. 
Speaker House of Representatives, 

Washington, D. C: 

Porto Rico House takes part in mourning of Congress and 

Nation for death of illustrious Representative William A. Jones, 

who devoted such noble thoughts and continuous labor to this 

country, where his memory will be always kept with gratitude. 

Jos. E. De Diego, Speaker. 

Saturday, April 27, 1918. 
Mr. Montague. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that the House set aside Sunday, the 26th day of May, for 
addresses on the life, character, and public services of my 



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late eminent colleague, William A. Jones, a Representa- 
tive of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Virginia asks unani- 
mous consent to set aside Sunday, May 26, to memorialize 
the late Representative William A. Jones, of Virginia. Is 
there ohjection? 

There was no ohjection. 

Friday, May 2, 191S. 
Mr. Yangco. Mr. Chairman, I should like to read a cable- 
gram I received this morning from Manuel L. Quezon, the 
president of the Senate, and Sergio Osmena, the speaker 
of the House of Representatives of the Philippine Islands. 
It is as follows: 

Manila, P. I., May 2, 191S. 
Veyra, Washington: 

Memorial services were held the night before last at the session 
hall of the house of representatives in honor of Mr. Jones, with 
attendance of the Governor General, members of cabinet, legis- 
lature, and supreme court, provisional governors, municipal dele- 
gations, Army, and Navy, etc. Speakers were the Governor 
General, presidents of both houses of the legislature, a represent- 
ative from the Filipino Chamber of Commerce, a representative 
from labor unions, and leaders of political parties. 

Manuel I- Qcezon, 
President Philippine Senate. 
Sergio Osmena, 
Speaker House of Pepresentatives. 

Monday, May JO, 1918. 
Mr. MONTAGUE. Mr. Speaker, some days since the House 
agreed to have the memorial exercises in relation to Hie 
late Representative Jones on next Sunday, May 26. Owing 
to the inability of several Members to participate in these 
exercises on tins date and aw ailing the. memorial proceed- 
ings, official and semiofficial, from tlie Philippine Islands, 

I ask unanimous consent (hat that order be vacated. Sub- 
sequently I will ask that another date lie fixed. 

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The Speaker. The gentleman from Virginia asks unani- 
mous consent to vacate the order for memorial services on 
May 26 for the late Representative Jones, of Virginia. Is 
there objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. 

Friday, January 3, 1919. 

Mr. Montague. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask unanimous 
consent that Sunday, the 16th of February, be set aside for 
memorial exercises on the life, character, and public serv- 
ices of the late Representative William A. Jones. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Mon- 
tague] asks unanimous consent that Sunday, February 16, 
be set aside for memorial services for the late Representa- 
tive Jones. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The 
Chair hears none. 

Sunday, February 16, 1919. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
order by the Speaker pro tempore [Mr. Butler]. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Eternal God, our Heavenly Father! 

That God, which ever lives and loves, 

One God, one law, one element, 

And one far-off divine event 
To which the whole creation moves, 

We thank Thee that the door of the holy of holies is ever 
open to Thy children, where they can commune with 
Thee, find inspiration to guide them in the duties of life, 
consolation for their sorrows, solace for the loss of loved 
ones, and everlasting hope. 

We meet here to-day in memory of four great men who 
wrought on the floor of this House for their constituents, 
their respective States, and the Nation they loved. 



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May those who knew them hest speak from their hearts, 
that their records may be left in the archives of the Nation 
they loved, that others may read and be inspired with 
patriotism and devotion. 

Comfort those who knew and loved them with the eter- 
nal hope that sometime, somewhere, they shall meet them 
in a land where partings shall be no more and love shall 
find its own; and everlasting praise be Thine, through 
Him who demonstrated that life is stronger than death. 
Amen. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
next order for to-day. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

On motion of Mr. Montague, by unanimous consent, 
Ordered, That Sunday, February 16, 1919, be set apart for 
addresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
William A. Jones, late a Representative from the State of Vir- 
ginia. 

Mr. Montague. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
for the present consideration and adoption of the resolu- 
tions which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House Resolution 582 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity maj be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
William A. Jones, late a Member of this House from the State of 
Virginia. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
shall stand adjourned. 



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Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 

The question was taken; and the resolutions were 
unanimously agreed to. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia 
[Mr. Flood] will take the chair. 

Mr. Flood took the chair. 

Mr. Montague. Mr. Speaker, exercises by this House in 
memory of my late colleague, William A. Jones, have been 
delayed in order to obtain copies of the memorial pro- 
ceedings had in his behalf by the people of Manila and the 
Legislature of the Philippine Islands, proceedings so ap- 
propriately related to this occasion that I request unani- 
mous consent that they may be made a part of the me- 
morial record of our deceased colleague. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia 
asks unanimous consent that the memorial proceedings 
referred to be made a part of the memorial record of our 
deceased colleague. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Mr. Montague. Mr. Speaker, I also ask unanimous con- 
sent that any absent Member unavoidably detained from 
these exercises to-day may be permitted to extend his re- 
marks in the Record. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia 
also asks unanimous consent that any Member unavoid- 
ably detained may have permission to extend Ms remarks 
in the Record. Is there objection? 
There was no objection. 



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Address of Mr. Montague, of Virginia 

Mr. Speaker: Amidst the accumulated work and labor 
of the closing days of this Congress, the last of the four- 
teen Congresses in which my late colleague continuously 
served, we may well pause to recall the life, character, and 
public services of a Representative so able, faithful, and 
successful. 

William Atkinson Jones was born at Warsaw, the 
county seat of Richmond County, Va., on March 21, 1849, 
and there he lived until his death in the George Wash- 
ington University Hospital, in the city of Washington, 
on April 17, 1918. He came from honorable American 
stock. His great-grandfather, Joseph Jones, was a general 
in the Revolutionary War, an intimate and trusted friend 
of Lafayette, and subsequently postmaster of Petersburg, 
Va., by appointment of Jefferson. Thomas Jones, the son 
of Joseph, married Mary Lee, the daughter of Richard 
Lee, long a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 
from Westmoreland County, a first cousin of the famous 
Richard Henry Lee; and from this marriage was born 
Thomas Jones, the second, who married Anne Seymour 
Trowbridge, of Plattsburg, N. Y., who were the father 
and mother of him to whose memory we would at 
this hour pay homage. I should add that James Trow- 
bridge, his maternal grandfather, was recognized by the 
Congress for his gallantry at the battle of Plattsburg in 
1814. So he came of goodly heritage, a heritage of which 
he never boasted, but which he exemplified by a life of 
high purpose and eminent usefulness. 

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His boyhood fell upon the stormy days of the great War 
Between the States and upon its abhorrent aftermath. 
His father, a man of character and force, an intrepid sol- 
dier upon many a field of battle, a lawyer of success, and 
a judge of uprightness, realizing the temper and promise 
of his son, entered him as a cadet in the Virginia Military 
Institute in the fall of 1861, where he remained until the 
evacuation of Richmond, serving as occasion required 
with the corps of that famous institute in defense of the 
capital of his State. Thus as a boy of 16 he did ardu- 
ous and valiant military service. He was then placed in 
Coleman's School, at Fredericksburg, a fine academy, from 
which he entered the University of Virginia in October, 
1868. In that institution, with a corps of great professors 
and with a remarkable student body, upon all of whom he 
made an enviable impression, he worked faithfully and 
successfully, graduating with distinction in its school of 
law in June, 1870. Here, too, he was noted as an athlete, 
as those of us who knew him twenty-live years ago in his 
great vigor and physical beauty can well appreciate. 

But, Mr. Speaker, education is not alone obtained from 
academics and universities, from study and observation, 
but largely, though unconsciously, from environment and 
the habits and traditions of the social group with which 
one comes into immediate contact. Perhaps not since the 
days of Athens did so small a section of country with a 
population so negligible in numbers ever put upon the 
stage of public activity in so brief a time so many great 
and illustrious nun as were found in the period just prior 
and subsequent to the Revolution in the northern neck of 
Virginia, a narrow strip of country lying between the Po- 
tomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Within a few miles of 
Mr. Jones's home were born Washington, Madison, and 
Monroe; "Light Horse Harry" Lee, of revolutionary re- 
nown; Richard Henry Lee, the mover of the Declaration 

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Address of Mr. Montague, of Virginia 

of Independence and the rival of Henry as the orator of 
the Revolution; Francis Lightfoot Lee, the signer of that 
document; Charles Lee, Attorney General in Washington's 
Cabinet; Arthur Lee, the negotiator of the treaty of 1778 
between the United States and France, and later Robert 
Edward Lee, ranked by many eminent critics as the fore- 
most military captain of the English-speaking race; while 
close by lived John Taylor, of Caroline, who wrought 
mightily for free institutions, and George Mason, the au- 
thor of the first Bill of Rights formulated in America and 
regarded by Washington as having the finest intellect of 
his time. 

These mighty names and their mighty deeds, con- 
tributing so largely to the standards of patriotism and 
public life of America, found young Jones not unrespon- 
sive to their nourishing influences and ennobling tradi- 
tions. Such an atmosphere, such historic and patriotic 
associations, constitute a fortunate school within which 
to rear an American statesman. 

In July, 1870, he was admitted to the bar of his native 
county, where his character, ability, learning, and in- 
dustry soon bore him to the very front of his profession. 
Within three years after coming to the bar he was elected 
Commonwealth's attorney by the people of his county, 
which office he filled with rare distinction and satisfac- 
tion for ten years. He was a fearless, sometimes a stern, 
but always a just prosecutor. In the year 1890, when he 
was elected to the Fifty-second Congress, he was at the 
head of the bar of his section of Virginia, appearing with 
success in many important cases in the State and Federal 
courts. At the bar, as upon the hustings, he was a power- 
ful advocate, a student of facts and of law, presenting his 
cases not always with the utmost tact but with a direct- 
ness and power of argument that was usually irresistible. 
He did not thrust the rapier; he rather wielded the broad 



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blade, and, sustained by a moral force, a mental vigor, 
and a commanding presence, be made one of the most 
formidable and successful advocates of his State before 
juries and courts, nisi prius and appellate. 

Mr. Speaker, by heredity, by education, and by historic 
and patriotic environment, it seemed quite inevitable that 
he would devote himself to public affairs. So we find him 
very early in life the bold and brilliant defender of his 
party's faith and the fame and good name of his Com- 
monwealth. He was frequently impressed for duty upon 
the hustings, and in some instances he met in debate the 
ablest men of the opposition from home and abroad. And 
none met him who ever forgot him, and many of his ablest 
antagonists cherished no wish to cross swords with him 
again. At times he was almost merciless in debate. His 
intensity of conviction, his accurate and quick perception 
of the weak joint in the armor of his opponent, made him 
one of the most formidable debaters of his State in his 
day and generation. This may seem exaggerative by those 
of this House who only saw him of recent years, bending 
under the weight of pain and disease, but those who have 
known liiin as I have known him, who have heard him as 
I have heard him, will unhesitatingly confirm this appre- 
ciation of his extraordinary forensic power. 

Mr. Speaker, the qualities which I have mentioned, to- 
gether with his compelling personality, his vehement con- 
fidence in the potency of free institutions, and his con- 
tributions of speech and pen to the public questions of the 
day led to his nomination to the Fifty-second Congress in 
a memorable campaign over a very popular opponent, the 
Republican Member of tin- district. Nor was his victory 
ephemeral. He was no erratic corned but rather a fixed 

Star, gTOVi ing i" steady and expanding radiance. So from 
his election in 1800 to the day of his death lie received the 

continuous and deepening confidence of a great constitu- 



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ency, and it may be truthfully affirmed that had he lived 
through the fall of 1918 he would have been nominated 
and elected without opposition. 

Once or twice his district was changed, but these changes 
brought him constituents of equal if not increased friend- 
liness and confidence. Nor did he employ the usual 
methods of securing political support. In his long career 
and contests he never by word or letter personally solic- 
ited a single vote, unless appeals to the people through 
the press and from the rostrum should be so construed. 
Indeed, save in rare instances, he never sent out a public 
document unless he had a specific request therefor. 

He approached his constituents as he would have them 
approach him, upon a plane of mutual respect, considera- 
tion, and confidence. But no Member of this House was 
ever more watchful of the rights and interests of his con- 
stituents, singular or collective. He never spared himself 
in their behalf, and among the last of his public acts, per- 
formed with great pain and inconvenience, was his irre- 
futable presentation of a great harbor improvement to 
the Chief of Engineers. 

Mr. Speaker, I should not undertake on this occasion to 
assemble and assess all the public services of my late emi- 
nent colleague, but I would mention two instances as best 
exhibiting the true temper and test of his political ideals, 
which were to be found in his unvarying and vehement 
conviction of the right and success of peoples to govern 
themselves. 

The first instance was the effective part he took in his 
own State in behalf of the direct election of United States 
Senators by the people, and, pending its accomplishment 
by constitutional amendment, his able, brilliant, and per- 
sistent efforts in behalf of a ballot primary as the means 
of instructing or controlling the State legislature in the 
selection of Senators. The wisdom of his statesmanship 

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in advocacy of such methods I will not discuss, my pur- 
pose being only to show his political convictions, his con- 
fidence in the right of the people to elect their political 
agents as essential to the proper maintenance of free in- 
stitutions. 

The second instance evidencing the same faith was his 
able and indefatigable efforts to give to the Filipinos the 
fullest measure of self-government compatible with their 
political development and with the ultimate purpose of 
their complete independence. The merits or demerits of 
his views upon this subject I will not now discuss, save to 
observe that his service in behalf of these distant peoples 
was the crowning achievement of his public life as it was 
the supreme evidence of his political faith and philosophy. 
He firmly believed that all just governments should rest 
upon the consent of the governed. This conviction was 
the source and object of his constant activities. 

Mr. Speaker, many here recall his presence on this floor 
battling for this ideal and for this legislation. We recall 
how he seemed to forget his physical limitations, and with 
a memory of all the facts and history involved in the ques- 
tion, with his soul aglow at the prospects of the larger 
liberties which the legislation would promote, by argu- 
ment and tact and tenacity he guided through this House 
that great measure which will make his name blessed for- 
evermore by the people of these far-away isles, as it is 
already embalmed in their grateful and fervent affections. 

I accompanied him from the House to his committee 
room after the final passage' of that measure. Tired and 
worn was he, but no word of personal exultation did he 
utter; only with winsome smile and subdued voice was a 
simple expression of gratitude that he had helped in his 
day and generation to extend the frontiers of human free- 
dom. This was the great achievement of his long carter, 
an achievement thai will be memorialized in enduring 

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form by the peoples of the Philippine Islands, and a culmi- 
nation worthy of the best traditions of American states- 
manship. 

Mr. Speaker, I must now close my inadequate apprecia- 
tion of this incorruptible public servant, this brave man, 
with resolute tenacity of purpose, with abounding confi- 
dence in the merits of any cause which he espoused, and 
fearless determination to give to it all of his strength and 
courage, to speak most briefly of his capacity for friend- 
ships. He had many friends and in them he saw little but 
what was good. He was slow to give his affections, but 
once given they were inflexible. It would be invidious to 
call the roll of his true and tried friends. But one I will 
ever remember, who from college to casket gave him an 
unbroken flow of affection, and who with sad face and 
moist eyes came in the early morning from another State 
to view the remains of his dead friend. And there are 
those of this Congress, amidst the associations of this 
Hall, who will recall the beautiful friendship so long ex- 
isting between him and the brilliant De Armond, of 
Missouri. 

I would not lift the veil which hides the outer world 
from the activities and felicities of his home life, save to 
say that he was a kindly neighbor, a delightful host, a 
dutiful and affectionate son, a true and faithful husband, 
and a generous and loving father. He truly met all of the 
near and tender relations of life. 

His death has wrung grievously the hearts of many, and 
he will long be missed by his district, his State, and this 
House, in which he was for so many years a distinguished 
Member. The funeral committee of this House will ever 
vividly recall the glowing and gorgeous spring morning 
when troops of friends and neighbors gathered about the 
open grave in the cemetery of Saint John's Church, in full 
view of his home, where amidst the singing of birds and 

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the moaning of friends he was laid away in the soil he 
loved so well. 

Mr. Speaker, he was ready for the summons. He was 
aware of the slender thread of life left him, for the pain 
and agony of his fatal disease told him only too plainly of 
the nearing end. But — 

Men must endure 
Their going hence as their coming thither; 
Ripeness is all. 

He was indeed the " full grain in the ear," ripe and hang- 
ing lightly to he plucked hy the Hand Divine. With cour- 
age and hope he quietly met the end, and at this hour I 
pay my homage to the memory of a true patriot, a great 
public servant, a noble and high-minded man, Virginia's 
loyal son, America's dauntless defender, and my dear 
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Address of Mr. Towner, of Iowa 

Mr. Speaker: The service of William Atkinson Jones 
as a Representative from the State of Virginia began with 
the Fifty-second Congress. He became chairman of the 
Committee on Insular Affairs at the commencement of the 
Sixty-second Congress. It was at that time I became asso- 
ciated with him as a member of that committee* and such 
association continued until the time of his death. 

Under the rules of the House all proposed legislation 
concerning the islands which came to us as a result of the 
War with Spain is within the jurisdiction of the Com- 
mittee on Insular Affairs. A brief period of military occu- 
pancy followed the adoption of the treaty by which we 
assumed jurisdiction of the islands — an organic act under 
which the Philippines were governed until the passage of 
the law now in operation was enacted by Congress in 1902. 

Under the act of 1902 the complete pacification of the 
islands was accomplished. Local laws were enacted, 
courts of justice established, sanitation effected, a public- 
school system inaugurated. In general great progress in 
all directions was made. Still it was understood both by 
the people of the islands and by the people of the United 
States that the law of 1902 was but a temporary enact- 
ment and that the time had arrived for further legisla- 
tion under which a larger measure of self-government 
should be given the islands. To the character of such 
legislation the gentleman from Virginia had given much 
study and thought, and to its formulation he gave serious 
attention immediately he became chairman of the com- 
mittee. 

The original draft of the bill was exclusively the work 
of Mr. Jones; but preliminary to its submission to the full 



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committee it was informally submitted for consideration 
to the ranking member of the majority, the gentleman 
from Tennessee [Mr. Garrett], and to myself as ranking 
minority member. Frequent and sometimes prolonged 
consultations were held. Although there was frequent 
disagreement, our relations throughout were the most 
cordial. When the bill was presented to the full com- 
mittee there was little controversy over the legislative 
provisions. The only controversy that arose and upon 
which there was political alignment was over the pre- 
amble. 

The preamble referred to stated in several whereases 
the future purpose of the people of the United States with 
regard to the Philippines. This declaration of purpose 
had its origin in a series of events which it may be of 
interest briefly to review: 

March 20, 1912, at the opening of the Sixty-second Con- 
gress, Mr. Jones, for the first time chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Insular Affairs, introduced a bill "To establish 
a qualified independent government for the Philippine 
Islands and to fix a date when such qualified independ- 
ence shall become absolute and complete." The bill pro- 
vided that "on and after the 4th day of July, 1921, the 
full and complete independence of the Philippines shall 
be and is hereby acknowledged." 

The bill was favorably reported by the Committee on 
Insular Affairs and placed on the calendar of the Housr. 
Opposition developed among the majority and it was not 
pressed for passage. Soon afterwards the Democratic 
Party in its national convention at Baltimore announced 
its platform regarding the Philippines, declaring for the 
independence of the islands not at any fixed time, but " as 
soon as a stable government can be established." 

In accordance with this announced policy of his party, 
on July 11. 1911, Mr. JONES introduced a hill in the pre- 

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amble of which it was declared that the purpose of the 
United States was to give the Philippine Islands " absolute 
and complete independence " when " a stable government 
can be established." The bill was favorably reported by 
the committee and passed the House, but failed of consid- 
eration by the Senate. 

Practically the same bill was introduced by Mr. Jones 
in the next Congress. The bill was favorably considered 
by the committee, but was not reported by reason of the 
action of the Senate. The chairman of the Committee on 
the Philippines in the Senate [Mr. Hitchcock] introduced 
in the Senate a bill alike in substance with the Jones bill. 
As it was reported from the committee, however, it had a 
different preamble, which declared that independence 
would be given the Philippines " when in the judgment of 
the United States it will be to the permanent interest of 
the people of the Philippine Islands." 

The debate in the Senate centered around this declara- 
tion, and after it had proceeded several days the Senator 
from Arkansas [Mr. Clarke] introduced an amendment 
directing the President to withdraw our authority and con- 
trol of the Philippines and to recognize their independ- 
ence in not less than two years and not more than four 
years from the approval of the act. The amendment was 
adopted to the astonishment of everybody, the preamble 
was withdrawn, and the bill passed the Senate and came 
to the House. When considered in the House the debate 
centered on the Clarke amendment, which was finally 
stricken out and the Jones bill, with its preamble promis- 
ing independence " as soon as a stable government can be 
established," was substituted, adopted, and is now the law. 

It was only an act of simple justice that in this manner 
was brought about the passage of the Jones bill. With- 
out much division of sentiment that was the desire of the 
House. The minority, while opposing the preamble, fav- 



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ored the legislation, of which the preamble was really not 
a part. Besides, the minority recognized the power and 
right of the majority to enact its views into law, and if 
any bill giving expression to such views was to pass the 
minority desired it should be the bill prepared and pre- 
sented by Mr. Jones, who was held in highest esteem by 
the entire membership of the House. 

In the minority report on the Senate bill, which I pre- 
pared and presented, I said: 

The minority members of the committee are glad to express 
their profound respect and affectionate regard toward this Nestor 
of the House [Mr. Jones], whose record of continuous service is 
longest among the entire membership of that body. It may not 
be improper to express the hope that his party associates in the 
House may substitute his bill for the Senate bill, so that its pas- 
sage may be the crowning act of a long, an honorable, and a dis- 
tinguished career of public service. 

In practical operation the Jones law has proven success- 
ful and satisfactory. Under it the people of the islands 
have continued progressive and prosperous. The proof 
given by this legislation, with its large measure of self- 
government, has satisfied the jjeople of the Philippines 
that the United States has no other desire than the happi- 
ness and well-being of their people. In the enactment of 
the Jones law the United States was but carrying into 
effect the declaration of President McKinley, made in 
1900, that the government of the islands which the United 
States intended to establish was " designed not for our 
satisfaction or for the expression of our theoretical views, 
but for the happiness, peace, and prosperity of the Philip- 
pine Islands." 

The effect of this legislation has been also satisfactory 
to the people of the United Slates. They have a higher 
respect for the capacity of llu people of the Philippines 
for self-government. They have a greater belief in their 



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Address of Mr. Towner, of Iowa 



gratitude and loyalty. The spontaneous exhibition of pa- 
triotic devotion given by the people of the Philippines 
when the United States entered the war against Germany 
and the generous offer of their sons in defense of this 
country and in support of the cause for which we fought 
have touched the hearts of Americans most deeply. 

The people of the Philippines early learned of the de- 
votion of Mr. Jones to their cause. He was from the first 
their champion. They watched the progress of his bill 
with continued and deep interest. When its success was 
finally announced their enthusiasm was most strongly 
made manifest by cheers and honors for its author. 
When the sad message was carried across the Pacific that 
their friend and benefactor was dead there was universal 
grief and mourning in the islands. 

The Philippine Review, a most excellent and remark- 
ably able journal, said: 

When the sad news of the death of William Atkinson Jones, 
the name that stands with that of Rizal as the greatest sponsor 
of Philippine liberties, was known to the Filipino people the 
profoundest sorrow was felt in every home in the islands. His 
death is considered as a national tragedy and mourned by the 
entire nation. 

The Hon. Manuel L. Quezon, now president of the 
Philippine Senate, who, as Delegate from the islands to 
the Congress of the United States, was associated with Mr. 
Jones throughout the long struggle to secure the passage 
of the Jones law, and without whose able and devoted 
labors its passage could not have been secured, said: 

The death of Mr. Jones, the most loyal and sincere friend of 
the Filipino people and constant champion of their liberties, is 
the greatest national loss suffered by our country since Rizal 
was taken away from us. The most patriotic Filipino could not 
have consecrated himself more completely to the defense of our 
interests. 



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The Hon. Sergio Osmena, the able and greatly loved 
speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, said: 

It is impossible to express in words the profound grief which 
now shrouds the Filipino people. If Mr. Jonks had been a Fili- 
pino his never-flagging interest for this country would have 
given him the right for the complete recognition of all. The fact 
that Mr. Jones, without being of our race, concentrated all his 
energy and enthusiasm for nearly 20 years to our cause makes 
him so deserving of our respect and our gratitude that it would 
not be sufficient that with a throbbing heart before his tomb we 
tender him our tears and our affections. He will live while there 
breathes a Filipino. 

It is a great accomplishment to have been of real serv- 
ice to ten millions of people. It is a still greater accom- 
plishment to have won their confidence and love. To have 
become a necessary part of the history of a people is to 
reach the highest place to which human ambition can 
aspire. Such was the accomplishment and such will be 
the place in history of William Atkinson Jones, whose 
memory we honor on this day. 



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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker: The man whose memory we formally 
honor to-day in accordance with the custom of the House 
was an intellectual and physical aristocrat, but a tempera- 
mental and spiritual democrat. 

He was born of Virginia and Massachusetts. Through 
his veins there coursed the best blood of the Old Domin- 
ion and the Old Bay State. His father was of the proud 
and honorable citizenry of Virginia; his mother a most 
conspicuous representative of the culture and charm of 
Massachusetts. 

Thus bred, he could not normally have been other than 
the gentleman he was. 

The district which he for so long a time represented in 
the Congress of the United States is made up of a territory 
as historic as any spot of like dimensions on the earth. 
Within its confines were born three Presidents of the 
United States — Washington, Madison, and Monroe — men, 
by the way, who were not made great by becoming Presi- 
dent, but who made the Presidency great They were 
practical architects and builders of States and nations. 

There, too, was born Gen. Robert Edward Lee. Others 
might be mentioned — statesmen, writers, soldiers, clergy. 
That section of tidewater Virginia has produced them all. 
Scarce a square mile of that territory but is hallowed by 
some tradition which is sacredly great. 

Hon. William A. Jones was worthy, both personally 
and officially, the fine traditions and spirit of that great 
section whence he came. 

Physically he was of well-nigh perfect proportion and 
build. His features were of finest line, his bearing was 
one of gracious dignity and unostentatious knightliness. 

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His gentlcmanliness came from the heart out. It was in- 
bred; it was of the warp and woof of his spirit. 

Intellectually I think we may justly say, measuring our 
words as we say it, that he was profound. He had a very 
thoroughly disciplined mind and a very active and nimble 
one. He discerned in a flash what many others were com- 
pelled to toil and grope for. He was a broad-based law- 
yer. I mean by this that he understood the philosophy 
of the law, comprehended its purposes, appreciated its 
deepness. 

Quite naturally, possessing the mental traits he did, he 
understood history. I do not mean simply that he knew 
history; I mean that he understood it. He comprehended 
its philosophy, too. He caught the significance of events 
as applied to human life and destiny. Thus, Mr. Speaker, 
he was prepared to be and was a great lawmaker. Under- 
standing life, knowing human nature, having information 
of the past which was accurate, and being able to analyze 
with cpiick and usually unfailing accuracy the significance 
of great activities, he was prepared for great work, and he 
rendered it. 

It is no part of my purpose to review here to-day the 
history of our acquisition of the Philippine Islands and 
Porto Rico. It is fair to say that to 99 per cent of our 
population the former came to us unexpectedly. Their 
coming marked an epoch in the life of our Republic. 
Whatever views gentlemen may entertain as to the ethics, 
the policy, the wisdom of our taking them, all will join in 
the assertion that it was epochal. It brought new and un- 
known problems for our solution. The gravity of our re- 
sponsibility was appreciated nowhere more than in the 
House of Representatives of the United States, which 
prepared to meet it. 

There was accordingly created a committee to deal with 
these grave and intricate tilings the Committee on In- 
sular Affairs. 

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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 

I think it is safe to assert that no stronger legislative 
committee was ever created than that first Committee on 
Insular Affairs. Of course, all the big men in the House 
could not be placed on it; there were too many, but all 
who were placed on it were big, intellectually and morally. 

Mr. Jones was made the ranking minority member of 
this great and then overwhelmingly important committee. 
From that time forth the solution of problems affecting 
the Philippines and Porto Rico became his great official 
life work. Other duties he met, of course, but the insular 
themes were his first and constant study. 

He had very pronounced convictions as to both the 
theoretical and practical phases of these problems. I was 
not a Member of this Congress during the early years 
when these questions were being dealt with, and of course 
my knowledge of what occurred is only historical, but 
from what I then learned by reading the current news and 
comment and from what I later learned of the character 
and force of Mr. Jones by personal contact with him I 
can readily understand that, although in the minority 
upon the committee, his force must have even then been 
greatly felt, and I dare say modified in a measure, at 
least, the general policy pursued by the Congress. 

In later years, when his party came into power, he be- 
came chairman of this committee. His death, by the way, 
removed from the committee the last of the Democrats 
who were appointed upon it at the time of its organiza- 
tion. I am not sure, but I think our colleagues, Mr. Cooper, 
of Wisconsin, who was its first chairman, and the former 
Speaker of this House, Mr. Cannon, are the only Members 
of the House now who originally were upon that dis- 
tinguished committee. 

When Mr. Jones became chairman he immediately set 
himself to the task of trying to write his ideals into the 
law. He had no easy task, as I have good occasion to 

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know, because I had the honor of being intimately asso- 
ciated with his activities and know the difficulties that con- 
fronted him, both in Congress and out. 

He did not, indeed, succeed in accomplishing the full 
measure of his purposes and desires, but he was able — 
having in this the cooperation of almost all — to greatly in- 
crease the quantum of power to be exercised by the people 
of Porto Rico and to liberalize the government of the 
Philippines to a point that was scarcely supposed possible 
by many a decade ago. The Philippine bill likewise car- 
ried in it a declaration of purpose on the part of Congress 
which gives assurance of ultimate absolute independence. 

This latter thing was the great hope of Mr. Jones from 
the time I first became officially associated with him upon 
the committee in the Fifty-ninth Congress. If he could 
have but seen the full consummation of his great dream of 
Philippine independence I think he would have died 
supremely and superbly happy. 

I need not dwell here upon the feeling which exists to- 
ward Mr. Jones in the Philippine Islands, because I am 
sure all know that his is the best-loved name of all the 
Americans who have had to do with Philippine affairs. 

He justly deserves these honors. He was from the be- 
ginning struggling for these ideals. In this, I think, he rep- 
resented the real, deep thought and feeling of America. 
As a matter of fact, Mr. Speaker, this thought has been 
nearly always reflected, but it has not been always possible 
of accomplishment in the measure that Mr. Jones was able 
to give. 

Just here I think it quite proper to say that the first 
chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs — and that 
\\:is before my first service in Congress — was Mr. Cooper, 
of Wisconsin, as I said a few moments ago. I happen to 
know historically of a very great Bght for a very great 
principle made by the gentleman from Wisconsin, and I 

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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 

* 

think when the history of the Philippine Islands is writ- 
ten — hy Filipinos or by Americans — that those writing it 
should know and say that it was largely due to the force- 
ful energy of the gentleman from Wisconsin that there 
was put into the original organic Philippine act the recog- 
nition of the principle of representative government in the 
Philippines; that is to say, the election of an assembly. 
The gentleman from Wisconsin did great work along the 
line of self-government even in those days. 

The gentleman from Virginia followed under different 
conditions and in different days. He wrought well and 
wisely. He was grounded in the principles of liberty. He 
was grounded in the spirit of democracy. 

I think I shall not refer to any of the personal phases of 
our relations. He was a man of intense convictions — I 
do not know whether it would be proper to say prejudice 
or not. It has always been a difficult thing for me to dis- 
tinguish at times between convictions and prejudices. He 
was a very aggressive man. When he felt, in committee or 
elsewhere, that he was being obstructed for trifling pur- 
poses, or for any purpose that was not sincere and in good 
faith, it was very terrible to have to deal with him. 

He was a most lovable man in his private life, as I know, 
because I had opportunity of being associated with him. 
He was a man of tender sentiment, graceful in person, 
gracious in his temperament and demeanor, a chivalrous, 
splendid, knightly gentleman. His death is a loss, both 
personal and public, to which it is difficult to properly 
reconcile any thoughts and feelings. 



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Address of Mr. Slayden, of Texas 

Mr. Speaker: It is a melancholy pleasure to pay tribute 
to the memory of a man who was both wise and good. 
In the course of my service of 22 years in this House I 
have met no man who in my opinion measured more 
fully up to that high standard than our lamented friend. 

Soon after coming to Congress I was thrown into more 
or less intimate relations with that chivalrous Virginia 
gentleman, William A. Jones, and as that intimacy grew 
so did my love and respect for him. He was tall enough 
to see beyond the confines of a congressional district, or 
even over the boundary of a State. In his desire for jus- 
tice he compassed the universe. He stood for justice and 
humanity everywhere and fought for the rights of Asi- 
atics just as earnestly and courageously as for those of 
his own fellow Americans. 

The greatest work done by our distinguished friend 
during his long legislative service was of a purely Ameri- 
can nature, although primarily in behalf of aliens. His 
public service was a reaffirmation, by vote and speech, of 
the rights of man as set out in the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. His character and mind were illustrated in his 
noble efforts to help a foreign people on whom an outside 
power had imposed an unwelcome government That it 
is a beneficent government, and in the main wisely ad- 
ministered, does not alter the fact that it is unwelcome. 
I recall no instance in all history where alien government 
has been acceptable to any people. No people of spirit 
have ever cheerfully consented to it, and the Filipinos, 
who were the special wards of Mr. Jones, have repeatedly 
shown that they do not lack spirit. 

Mr. Jones did not believe in tin- government of the con- 
queror. He was too thoroughly American for that, and 

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Address of Mr. Slayden, of Texas 



held firmly to the fundamental American faith that gov- 
ernments derive all just powers from the consent of the 
governed. He was not dazzled by the glamour of colonial 
empire nor drawn into a compromise with conscience by 
the possibility of profitable trade. 

An honest thinker, the thought never came to him that a 
political act which would be wrong when done by a Ger- 
man or Austrian could be right when done by an Ameri- 
can, and even less so when associated with the possibility 
of profit. He had no patience with the cant and hypocrisy 
that plead for democracy and self-government on one con- 
tinent and deny it on another. He. could not be persuaded 
that principles are lost in crossing the seas or less insistent 
in Asia than in Europe and America. 

He was the commanding figure among many leaders in 
the fight for justice for the Philippines from the time those 
islands passed to the control of the United States. 
Although occasionally defeated, he was encouraged and 
sustained by the thought that right must ultimately pre- 
vail. His devotion to their cause earned him the gratitude 
and love of 10,000,000 people, and his memory will be for- 
ever linked with the blessings of liberty and independence 
which they are destined to enjoy. 

He was a member of the Anti-Imperialist League, an 
association of gentlemen who for 20 years have given 
freely of their time and means to see that American prin- 
ciples of government shall be applied to the Philippines. 
That organization, more, perhaps, than any individual, in 
or out of Congress, knew and appreciated the work that 
Representative Jones did for the establishment of the po- 
litical rights of the Filipinos. It relied on him, and he 
never failed to meet its expectations. 

Mr. Speaker, it may be said to the credit of the Ameri- 
can Congress that, with all but a relatively few Members, 
the occupation of the archipelago has always been re- 



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garded as a temporary measure. In the minds of most 
Members, including many who have for this or that reason 
voted against the grant of independence to the Filipinos, 
there has persisted the thought and purpose to concede it 
to them at some convenient season. In some instances 
these votes were, I believe, in response to party exigency 
and political platforms and not a true reflection of the 
views of Members. It is one of the evils of party govern- 
ment — which system, let me say in passing, I believe in — ■ 
that such things do occasionally happen. 

Of course, strange as it may seem, there have always 
been some of our fellow citizens who believed that we 
should keep the islands for commercial exploitation, but 
I will not reflect on my countrymen by believing there 
have ever been more than a negligible number. It is the 
basest form of kaiserism. 

I was here when Dewey won his victory at Manila, and 
like most of my countrymen I began to make the ac- 
quaintance of the Philippine Islands, which until then had 
been a mere geographical expression. Instantly and in- 
stinctively I saw what might happen and what, in fact, 
did happen later, if we should assume political control of 
that far-away territory, and my fight against it began at 
once. So did that of my friend William A. Jones. As he 
and I saw it so did many others, some of whom occupied 
high official positions. It was frankly said by such men 
that the association would be unfair to the people whom 
tlie fortunes of war had made politically dependent on us 
for the time being and would in the end mean disaster 
for the United Slates. 

The inconsistency with the political principles of the 
Declaration of Independence and with our declared policy 
as to the American continents was pointed out and the 

whole policy of expansion by military conquest protested 

against. 

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Address of Mr. Slayden, of Texas 



These were the circumstances that compelled and the 
people who organized the Anti-Imperialist League. The 
loyalty of that association to true Americanism commands 
the respect of all thoughtful and patriotic people. 

In these days political writers and speakers are express- 
ing an old thought in a new phrase. " Self-determina- 
tion," which President Wilson pleads for so eloquently 
and to which our associates in the great war are pledged, is 
only the American idea of government by the consent of 
the governed. More than 140 years ago we declared any 
other form of government to be unjust, and it can not be 
made just, even when imposed by our own Republic. Our 
ancestors made themselves immortal by that declaration, 
even as Rizal, Quezon, Osmena, and other great Filipinos 
are marked for immortality for doing precisely the same 
thing. 

Mr. Jones rejoiced in the prosperity and comparative 
freedom that came to the Filipinos under American direc- 
tion. He pored over the statistics of their growing trade 
and was pleased that a large share of it is with the United 
States. But he rejoiced more that the ease and comfort 
that came to the Filipinos did not seduce them from the 
thought of independence. I believe that if they had ever 
shown any lessening of loyalty to that principle it would 
have broken his great heart. For the nearly 20 years that 
they have been bound to us by the treaty signed in Paris 
he labored in their interest and in harmony with sound 
Americanism to break the tie. In that cause he never slept 
at his post, never ceased from his labors. 

In 1912 he and I, on his suggestion, visited the governor 
of New Jersey, then become the presidential candidate of 
our party, to invite his attention to the repeated declara- 
tions in Democratic national platforms in favor of the 
complete independence of the Philippine people. The 
progress since made in the direction of conceding to them 



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the right of self-government which we claim for ourselves 
may, in some measure, be due to the earnest argument 
made on that occasion by Representative Jones. 

From the beginning of the war we have all hoped for an 
early victory over the hosts of autocracy and evil headed 
by the German Emperor and that civilization would be 
rescued from its great peril and the council of peace 
assembled. The President has said that the small nations 
shall live and shall have their own governments based on 
the will of the people to be governed and that they 
shall determine its form. It is a noble thought, nobly 
expressed, but has its embarrassments. How will we 
meet the jeers and scorn of the dcspoilers of Poland, Ser- 
bia, Roumania, Bohemia, and Belgium if our own hands 
are not clean, if we still maintain unwelcome government 
in the Philippines? Surely, sir, our own house must be set 
in order before we can undertake to direct the affairs of 
Europe. Such, I feel sure, was the wish and thought of 
Mr. Jones. 

He died happy in the knowledge that his work had been 
practically finished, that the Congress of the United States 
had solemnly declared in the act approved August 20, 
191(5, that the complete independence of the Philippine 
Islands should be formally recognized "as soon as a 
stable government can be established therein." 

He was profoundly gratified that the Philippine govern- 
ment had become stable and that tin' Filipinos were dem- 
onstrating their fitness for independence. 

Now, in the great world crisis they did even more to 
merit this recognition. They prepared and tendered an 
army of 2"),000 men to serve witli the United States and 
their allies in the war for democracy and " self-determina- 
tion " in Europe. Shall we be faithless to the character of 
our own country and outrage the memory of the great Vir- 
ginian whose memory we are honoring to-day by refusing 

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Address of Mr. Slayden, of Texas 



to give him the greatest memorial possible, by refusing to 
link his name forever with the history of a free, independ- 
ent, and grateful people? Shall we not be just to the 
Filipinos? 

I submit, Mr. Speaker, for printing in the Record, as a 
part of my speech, resolutions of respect to the memory of 
William A. Jones adopted by the Anti-Imperialist League 
and an estimate of his character and services by Mr. Erv- 
ing Winslow, of Boston, the secretary of that organization. 

Memorial of the Hon. William Atkinson Jones 
(By Erving Winslow.) 

William Atkinson Jones, whose public service in the Con- 
gress of the United States was unprecedentedly monumental in 
quality as in duration, will be honored there by his colleagues 
for what he contributed to the national welfare, as Virginia has 
testified to his, devotion to that of his State, and as those who 
regarded him as his wards " in loco parentis," the Filipino peo- 
ple, have in every possible way manifested their gratitude for 
his great share in causing the door to be opened for them pres- 
ently to enter into an independent life. 

It may be permitted to add an humble but most sincere testimony 
to Mr. Jones's memory for his noble world service, such as few 
men of our own or of any time have rendered to mankind. In 
the good fight which he fought he gave us encouragement to be- 
lieve that his hands were stayed up by our loyal support, such 
as the warrior lawgiver of old received from his followers when 
his were made steady, like our hero's, until the going down of 
the sun. 

To Mr. Jones is due a conspicuous part in the establishment by 
statute of the United States of a great principle which has ac- 
quired such momentum that both sides in the great war claim 
it as their own — one in sincerity and the other with the hypocrisy 
which is the tribute paid to right by wrong. 

The right of " self-determination " to be a free and independent 
nation was conceded by many great men of both the Democratic 
and Republican Parties as one to be granted within a measur- 
able period of time, even at the moment when sovereignty was 



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obtained over the Philippines by the treaty with Spain. A decla- 
ration to this effect was in fact only defeated in the Senate by 
the casting vole of the Vice President. Mr. Jones supported the 
original position of the Democratic Party and joined in those 
assurances given to the Filipinos through their friends and the 
party platforms and our declarations that with watchful waiting 
their cause was being kept alive. He took an active part in the 
preparation of the bill H. R. 79, which was introduced in the 
first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress by Senator Williams, then 
a Member of the House, while the Filipinos were still fighting 
for their liberty, promising it to them after a few years' proba- 
tion if they would lay down their arms. - No action was taken 
upon it by the committee to which it was referred. 

From April 11, 1899, when the transfer of sovereignty from 
Spain to the United States took place, to July 1, 1902, the dis- 
tracted Filipinos were subjected to three distinct forms of gov- 
ernment, differing materially from each other. On the latter 
date what was fitted to be, as it was declared to be, only a tem- 
porary measure of civil administration was put in force and 
limped along with much dissatisfaction in the United States and 
the archipelago. 

Before the first inauguration of President Wilson Mr. Jones, in 
his devotion to the cause of Philippine independence, had pre- 
pared and submitted to him the draft of an " organic act." which 
obtained Mr. Wilson's approval, establishing a system of self- 
government, with such conditions as would lead up, in his opin- 
ion, to a status that might deserve and receive the grant of inde- 
pendence — such as had been the platform of the Democratic Party 
in three preceding national conventions succeeding its attitude 
upon the question taken when the treaty with Spain was pend- 
ing. The bill II. P.. 22143, Sixty-second Congress, that Mr. Jones 
offered, was reported from the Insular Committee, of which he 
was chairman, April 26, 1912. The bill fixed the date for this 
grant as eight years from its passage; but it was never acted upon, 
because immediate concerns of Philippine administration of a 
critical nature, relating to the Friars' lands, took precedence 'if 
opportunity given in the House to the chairman of the Committee 
on Insular Affairs. Not until August 20, 191 I, could Mr. Jones 
introduce as an "organic act" liis bill II. R, 18459, which, while 

containing a statement in its preamble that the United States 



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Address of Mr. Slayden, of Texas 



" purposes to withdraw its sovereignty from the Philippine Is- 
lands," did not flx a date therefor. Mr. Jones said in his report 
accompanying the bill: 

" It has not been deemed wise to attempt to flx the precise time 
for establishing Philippine independence, inasmuch as conditions 
may be of a nature to render possible such separation even sooner 
than could be properly fixed in an act of legislation. The theory 
upon which the proposed measure has been framed is that the 
Filipino people possess the capacity for self-government and are 
entitled to enjoy it. It is believed that with the opportunity for 
conclusive demonstration of their ability in this direction the 
date of complete independence will not be long deferred." 

Though, under conditions of enfeebled health, Mr. Jones, in 
charge of the bill, supported by the eloquent and earnest cham- 
pion of his people, Commissioner Quezon, made a brave and suc- 
cessful contest for his " creation," which was passed October 14, 
with a few amendments, and sent to the Senate, where, however, 
it failed of adoption. 

With characteristic perseverance and enthusiasm, Mr. Jones 
presented substantially the same bill as H. R. 1 on the opening 
day of the Sixty-fourth Congress, December 6, 1915, which was 
referred to the Insular Committee. In similar form a bill (S. 
381) was passed in the Senate, sent to the House of Representa- 
tives, and referred to its Insular Committee also, with the star- 
tling amendment, that had been offered and engineered by Sena- 
tor Clarke, which established the " transfer of possession, sov- 
ereignty, and governmental control of the Philippine Islands, to 
be completed and become absolute not less than two years nor 
more than four years from the date of the approval of this act." 
Senator Clarke's characteristic audacity had swept away the Sen- 
ate's opposition, and, though Mr. Jones with his political acumen 
must have recognized the fact that in practical details the enact-- 
ment would require much reshaping, his single-hearted devotion 
to the cause and loyalty to the administration which had ap- 
proved it led him to cause S. 381 to be substituted in his com- 
mittee for his own bill, H. R. 1, and to be reported favorably. 
It was fated to defeat in the " House of its friends." Once more 
the high-hearted and gallant Jones faced the situation and moved 
the substitution of his " organic act," H. R. 1, with its strong 
preamble as follows: 



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" Whereas it was never the intention of the people of the United 
States in the incipiency of the War with Spain to make it a war 
of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; and 

" Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the peo- 
ple of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the 
Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon 
as a stable government can be established therein; and 

" Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it 
is desirable to place in the hands of the people of the Philippines 
as large a control of their domestic affairs as can be given them 
without, in the meantime, impairing the exercise of the rights of 
sovereignty by the people of the United States in order that, by 
the use and exercise of popular franchise and governmental 
powers, they may be the better prepared to fully assume the re- 
sponsibilities and enjoy all the privileges of complete independ- 
ence: " etc. 

This act was passed by the House May 1, 1916, and sent to con- 
ference. It was reported to the Senate August 11 and passed 
August 16, reported to the House August 15, passed August 18, 
and approved by the President August 29. 

It is believed that Mr. Jones first suggested to the President the 
name of Gov. Gen. Harrison, whose appointment was so fortui- 
tous, and which has led to a well-controlled development of Fili- 
pino self-governing capacity beyond all expectations. 

It is most gratifying to know that he who was the best possible 
judge rif this success, as preliminary to the goal — Philippine in- 
dependence — felt a grateful consciousness of it. In a letter he 
wrote a few weeks before his death to a friend he said: 

" From what I have been able to learn of conditions in the 
Philippines, never before have their inhabitants been blessed 
with an equal amount of happiness, contentment, and prosperity 
to that which they are now enjoying. This, I am assured, even 
by those who doubted the wisdom of the passage of the organic 
law under which the Filipinos are now living, is chiefly due to 
the enactment of that legislation, and never before have the Fili- 
pinos manifested a like amount of good will for the people of the 
United States. The state of general contentment which exists 
throughout the islands, and the many manifestations of loyalty 
OD the part of their Inhabitants to the American Government, is 
not due. as has been asserted in certain quarters, to the alleged 



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fact that they have lost their desire for complete independence. 
On the contrary, I believe it is true that the increased measure 
of autonomy which they now enjoy has but stimulated their de- 
sire for complete autonomy and absolute independence." 

At one time when Gov. Gen. Harrison had expressed some 
doubts whether his .health would permit his longer retention of 
his post (fortunately since dispelled) only one name was men- 
tioned among the Filipinos and their friends for the succession — 
him who thus might actually share, as the representative of the 
United States, in the coronation of his work. A once contem- 
plated visit to the Philippine Islands was hailed there with en- 
thusiastic anticipation as the opportunity for a national welcome 
by a grateful nation. 

From the long campaign, implying a close touch and much 
correspondence with Mr. Jones, it is difficult to discriminate 
between the admirable characteristics exhibited by our great 
and good friend. Perhaps that modesty and courtesy which 
welcomed his followers and admirers to a cooperative place in 
his counsels were most impressive to them. 

He was firm in principle, but accessible to compromise or con- 
cession in detail; fiery in zeal, but capable of patient restraint; 
quite independent, but dutifully so within the circle of party and 
official loyalty; brilliant in repartee, but with a thrust so fair that 
its keenness left no festering wound I 

The Anti-Imperialist League, cohort of the legion which fol- 
lowed the eagles of " the noblest Roman of them all," has 
expressed thus its sense of their loss — the loss of two nations: 

"Resolved, That the Anti-Imperialist League, in mourning the 
death of William Atkinson Jones, which evoked such deep feel- 
ing among its members, is anticipating the response which will 
come from the grateful people of the Philippine Islands when 
they hear that their patient and zealous advocate is no more. 

" During the latter part of his veteran service in Congress he 
gave himself without stint to the cause of the Filipino people, 
especially to that which he believed to be of the first importance, 
preparation for their independence, believing it to be the fulfill- 
ment of the duty owed to them as well as to the United States. 

"As chairman of the Insular Committee of the Sixty-fifth Con- 
gress he was enabled at last to obtain acceptance of his own 
' organic act ' (the Jones bill) for the self-government of the 



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Philippines, which, though in feeble health, he supported against 
embittered opposition with wonderful tact, discretion, and cour- 
tesy such as won him the respect of his adversaries, the admira- 
tion of the league, and the passionate devotion of the Filipino 
people, who kindled bonfires on every hill, held meetings to ap- 
plaud him, and gave his name to public places. 

" Not only did this act establish a well-considered system of self- 
government and make a reality of what was once a catchword, 
' the Philippines for the Filipinos,' but it contained a promise 
that in due time the United States would grant autonomy to the 
archipelago. 

" Mr. Jones lived to see his work tested thoroughly, to see 
abuses corrected, extravagance checked, and executive, legal, and 
legislative offices working well and in entire harmony with the 
supreme representative of the United States, Gov. Gen. Har- 
rison, but he felt that his great reward would come when the 
end should crown his splendid service, hoping for ' his peo- 
ple,' as his last letter said, that everything would ' serve to hasten 
the hour when they should be granted complete independence.' 
To that end we, his associates and followers, as his best memorial, 
pledge our renewed devotion." 



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Address of Mr. Saunders, of Virginia 

Mr. Speaker: We are gathered together to-day to pay 
those tributes to the memory of a departed friend which 
are prompted by the affectionate regard in which he was 
held in this body. In length of continuous service in the 
House of Representatives Mr. Jones has been exceeded by 
only one Member from his native State, in the entire his- 
tory of that Commonwealth, and paralleled by but few 
in the country at large. He was first elected in 1890, and 
at the time of his death was rounding out a notable career 
of long and successful service. 

William Atkinson Jones was born in Warsaw, Va., in 
1849. As a boy he served for a time in the Confederate 
Army, principally in the defense of Richmond. At the 
conclusion of hostilities he resumed the studies which the 
war had interrupted and graduated in the department of 
law at the University of Virginia in the year 1870. 

That same year he began the practice of his chosen pro- 
fession in his native town. His success was rapid and un- 
interrupted. He early turned to politics and took an ac- 
tive part in the heated controversies, both local and na- 
tional, which marked that period. In 1890 he was first 
elected to Congress, and from that time forward he was 
successively chosen from his district to represent it in 
this body. 

There are several things to be noted in connection with 
his protracted service. In the first place it very clearly 
shows that Mr. Jones represented a homogeneous people, 
holding a steady attitude toward public questions, and 
free from those violent fluctuations of sentiment which so 
often defeat a Representative at the very time that he is 
attaining a position to be of the highest service to his 

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constituents. Again, this fact of long and continuous serv- 
ice indicates that the Representative was in some degree 
an unusual man and by reason of conspicuous merit was 
able to maintain his hold upon his people. Even a con- 
stituency in the highest degree stable and conservative in 
its attitude would not retain in its service for so lengthy a 
period a man who did not in their judgment maintain his 
supremacy over his compeers and competitors. Mr. 
Jones, particularly in the early period of his career as the 
Member from the first district of Virginia, had some hard- 
fought political battles in which the issue was in doubt. 
Rut as time progressed he so established himself in the 
confidence and affection of the voters of that portion of 
the State that both nominations and elections became a 
mere matter of form. Our friend possessed a clear in- 
tellect, a cool and well-poised judgment, high ideals, rug- 
ged integrity, a natural aptitude for debate, and unusual 
capacity for hard work, due to his splendid physicme. It 
was inevitable that a man possessing these qualifications 
would succeed, first at the bar and then in this de- 
liberative body where he served so long and with such 
distinction. 

The district which he represented comprises the bulk of 
those counties in which the first settlements were made in 
Virginia. These counties were the birthplace of a Dum- 
ber of Ihe most distinguished men that Virginia has con- 
tributed to the councils of that Commonwealth and of the 
Nation. Washington, Madison, Monroe, Lee. and many 
Other distinguished men hailed from that portion of OUT 
State. The present population of the district is in large 
measure descended from the first settlers, with but little 
admixture of other stocks. Nourished upon the traditions 

of their great forbears and living somewhat away from 
the established lines of travel in Virginia, they have pre- 
served to a large extent the old outlook upon fundamental 

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national questions, a profound reverence for the Constitu- 
tion, and an indisposition to accept in haste new doctrines, 
destructive of the old, with nothing to be said in their 
behalf save the insistent demand that they should be ac- 
cepted merely because they were new. Cherishing this 
attitude himself, Mr. Jones was the ideal Representative 
for such a constituency. I would not for a moment be 
understood as suggesting that either he or his people were 
narrow, provincial, backward, and unprogressive. Far 
from it. He kept abreast with the movements of modern 
thought, accepting after full consideration that which 
upon the whole seemed to represent progress, but firmly 
rejecting the chaff that was presented in its name. 

By virtue of his membership on the Committee on In- 
sular Affairs Mr. Jones was naturally brought into inti- 
mate contact with the problems of life and government in 
Porto Rico and the Philippines. He was the firm friend 
at all times of the people of those islands and believed 
that they were capable of self-government and home rule 
in the present, not at some indefinite time in the future. 

He took an active part in the construction of the last 
Philippine act, an act that may almost be called a consti- 
tution for the islands. While the act fell far short of his 
conception of a proper measure of home rule for the 
islanders, it represented a great step forward, and if he 
had lived it would have given him the keenest delight 
to read the last report made by Governor Harrison upon 
the progress that the Filipino people have made in the 
direction of substantial self-government. The govern- 
ment of the Philippines is to-day largely in the hands of 
efficient native administrators who have largely replaced 
foreigners and have evidenced the very highest capacity 
to administer civil affairs in all of their details. Knowl- 
edge of this success on the part of his Filipino friends 
would have delighted his heart, justifying, as it has done, 



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his confidence that if given the opportunity the people of 
those islands would show themselves amply capable of 
self-government and entitled, therefore, to be relieved 
from a condition of foreign tutelage. 

As a debater in this body until ill health overtook him 
Mr. Jones shrank from no encounter. He possessed in 
an unusual degree the power of lucid and perspicuous 
speech, though at times he rather overelaborated his sub- 
ject by too great attention to detail. He was held in high 
esteem by all of his colleagues, who recognized the purity 
of his ideals and the clarity of his intellect. During the 
latter years of his membership in this body he was not 
a frequent participant in its debates. The steady progress 
of the disease which finally overcame him, while it did 
not seem in anywise to affect the vigor of his intellect, 
indisposed him to physical exertion. His last extended 
appearance on the floor was in connection with the Philip- 
pine bill, a measure that was very dear to his heart. His 
contributions to the debates upon that measure, both to 
the general debate and under the 5-minute rule, showed 
that he had lost nothing of his informing capacity when 
dealing with a measure which he had made the subject 
of painstaking study. Throughout the entire progress of 
the bill he showed himself a master at all times of the 
whole subject matter, both in the large view and in the 
minuter details which are so often inadequately appre- 
hended by the committee reporting a bill and therefore 
insufficiently presented. 

Mr. Jones was one of the most indefatigable members of 
this body in looking after the interests of his constituents, 
whether those interests took the form of legislation or of 
some detail requiring attention at the departments. 

It was this indefatigable industry in all matters large 
;ind small, his rugged integrity, his power of lucid speech, 
his devotion to the interests of his constituents, Ins high 

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ideals, and his upright life that explain his remarkable 
hold upon his constituents. No district, it may be said 
without offense to any one or implied criticism of any 
one, ever had a more faithful Representative or one serv- 
ing them with an eye more single to their interests. He 
was a valued friend, and I mourn his loss, feeling that 
Virginia, and in particular the district which he repre- 
sented so long and so ably, are the poorer by his death. 



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Address of Mr. de Veyra, of the Philippine Islands 

Mr. Speaker: I must not elude my duty to participate 
in the memorial services of to-day. Being a Filipino and 
one of the representatives of a nation for whose welfare 
Congressman Jones dedicated his best efforts, I would be 
uneasy, I would be recalcitrant to my official duties, if I 
should desist from joining this affectionate tribute given 
him by his comrades. This is because Filipinos owe 
William Atkinson Jones a gratitude great and sincere; 
we are his debtors forever. 

It was Commissioner Quezon, my predecessor in office 
and a coworker of Congressman Jones in the same enter- 
prise, who said that, after that of Rizal, our national hero, 
Jones's death is the greatest loss that has befallen the 
Filipino people. Mr. Quezon had a happy thought when 
he uttered that great truth — a great truth echoing the 
beatings of every Filipino heart. 

The names of Rizal and Jones will, indeed, go down in 
history intertwined. They signify the moral union of two 
peoples, the American and the Filipino. The altruism of 
one and the gratitude of the other make them brothers. 

Rizal and Jones are two symbolisms. Rizal dispelled 
our sleep of centuries and awakened the conscience of the 
masses. Jones enthroned our rights, making us conscious 
of a juridicial existence with a promise of a grander 
national future cheering us on and on. The one was a 
hope, the other a reality. Rizal was the flower containing 
the pollen in which Jones had become the fruit. Rizal 
launched the campaigns for our social rehabilitation and 
laid the bases of our nationalism. JONES espoused the 
seasoned effects of those campaigns and revealed to the 
American people a national unit dc-irous of enjoying the 

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full rights and attributes of an independent existence. 
The Filipino patriot was the key of gold which unlocked 
the destinies of a people; the American patriot was the 
clarion which blazoned forth America's official recogni- 
tion of their national aspirations. Rizal fell a victim to 
Spanish muskets, singing: 

I die just when I see the dawn break, 
Through the gloom of night, to herald the day. 

Jones was summoned by death, hardly having wit- 
nessed the operations of the law he indited; but he, like 
Rizal, died on the eve of the great readjustments which 
surely must transpire when the greatest treaty in history 
shall have been concluded. Thus, together, Rizal and 
Jones — their epochal labors — may be said to constitute 
the foundation stones of the future Filipino nation. 

One of the best eulogies of Congressman Jones delivered 
in the Philippines was that of Senator Rafael Palma, the 
present secretary of the interior, in the joint session of the 
two houses of our legislature. In summarizing the gen- 
eral impression produced by the death of the noble Vir- 
ginian, Mr. Palma said: 

On the 16th of April of this year [1918] the faint accent of the 
cable transmitted from one end to the other of this archipelago 
the news that Representative Jones, of Virginia, was seriously 
ill. This message of sorrow produced in all parts of the islands 
a sensation of anguish, and the soul of the whole country felt 
the profound alarm that something was being lost which was a 
part of it, something which was to it intimate and familiar. 
When after a few days later the cables flashed the sadder news 
of his demise, a general consternation overran the Filipino 
homes, drowning their inhabitants in profound mourning and 
meditation. * * * The Filipino people, after experiencing 
the first moments of stupor and pain, arose like a single soul to 
give a vigorous expression to its sincere condolence for the bitter 
loss, and in the messages which came from the remotest confines 
of our municipalities, from our political, civic, and social or- 

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ganizations, as well as in the memorial services rendered for Ihe 
departed, the language of man exhausted the vocabulary of pain, 
that vocabulary that can not, and can never, inclose the multi- 
farious sentiments of the human heart. 

Nothing would be lost — rather, it would be proper to 
repeat here the expressions of grief, of love, and of grati- 
tude of the Filipino people on the death of their benefac- 
tor. Rut it is not easy to comprehend their feelings, im- 
possible to accurately portray them here. This is because 
the Filipinos have come to regard Congressman Jones not 
only with fondness but also with an affection that approxi- 
mates idolatry. 

Jones's colleagues in this House and his friends have 
spoken and will ever speak of his legislative works and of 
the distinctive phases of his attractive personality. Cer- 
tainly he possessed a noble spirit, an admirable self-de- 
nial, an absolute unselfishness; he had a devotion to duty 
that was characteristically American; he was persistent 
and resolute in his battles for lofty ideals; be was a 
good friend, a loyal companion, an affectionate father; in 
short, the irreproachable model of a citizen. 

The Filipinos have much to say concerning him which, 
though identical with what Americans say. may have a 
different significance, because it comes from the lips of 
another race possessed of different customs. 

Note, nevertheless, that although we are different from 
you in various respects, there exist fundamental elements 
which make possible mutual understanding between us. 
We are Christians; we are the only Christian nation in the 
Orient. Our Chrislianizalion is not of one, two, or three 
generations merely, ll dales far back into the sixteenth 
century. II began even before the discovery of the Mis- 
sissippi, before the Foundation of the thirteen Colonies, 
and long before the arrival of the Mayflower in the waters 
of Ni w England. For three centuries occidental eiviliza- 

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Address of Mr. de Veyra, of the Philippine Islands 

tion had been transfiguring our national structure. Thus 
it was that America, much to her surprise, found in the 
Philippines a people fairly well occidentalized. 

From across the Pacific, therefore, Filipinos and Ameri- 
cans can, figuratively speaking, shake hands. We under- 
stand you well. Our sense of gratitude is the same as 
yours. And we are well known for our gratefulness. " In 
this country," said a Spanish governor general, referring 
to the Philippines, " there blooms as if by spontaneous 
growth the flower of gratitude." 

Permit me to illustrate my point by an emotional inci- 
dent. On April 8, 1918, my wife and I learned, with great 
alarm, that the night before Congressman Jones had been 
suddenly attacked with paralysis. We hurried to the hos- 
pital to visit him. It was not a case of mere courtesy, but 
of an affection almost filial. The patient was in bed, un- 
conscious. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. de Veyra had already met 
each other in Manila and had seen each other here many 
times before. When they saw each other then they em- 
braced and bitterly wept together, the tears of the Ameri- 
can lady mingling with those of the Filipino in common 
grief. That incident conveys a meaning which no elo- 
quence can adequately explain. It is an incident which 
is entirely private and whose mention in this august Hall 
might be inappropriate, but is justifiable in order to show 
with what regard Congressman Jones is held by the 
country. 

We liked him as a father. The immense good which he 
had done for our country has evoked in us this sentiment. 
It was with a paternal spirit that he dealt with my prede- 
cessor. Jones and Quezon had helped one another for 
full six years, promoting a common cause. When Com- 
missioner Quezon left for the Philippines, to be the bearer 
of the new enactment, the two men parted in tears. 



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We liked Jones, indeed, as a father. He was always 
willing to help us in our difficulties and his counsels we 
always sought. More than this, it was he who gave our 
country political recognition. It was he to whom we are 
indebted for the modernization of our institutions. He 
was the author of our new organic law, bearing the prom- 
ise of this Republic that the Philippines will in time be 
made absolutely free. He is to us, therefore, what King 
John and the trainers of the Magna Charta are to English- 
men. He is to us what Jefferson and the signers of the im- 
mortal Declaration of Independence are to Americans. 

If I may justify this parallelism, permit me to recall the 
situation of the Philippines before August 29, 1916, the 
date when President Wilson atlixed his signature to the 
Jones law. What were we then? An almost voiceless 
people, with a peculiar system of laws, neither a colony 
nor a territory — a thing undefined in terms of colonial 
history. 

Imagine a people which Spain had educated for 350 
years, but whose national ideals had been repressed. It 
was a nation which believed in the doctrines of democracy 
and was impatiently desirous of seeing itself completely 
independent. It had no mother, and it did not wish to 
have a stepmother. In the transmutation of its social and 
political institutions it studied the conditions of your com- 
monwealth, the most democratic commonwealth of the 
world. Far from silencing our aspirations, the study con- 
vinced us that those aspirations were legitimate and they 
accordingly flamed anew. The youthful nation felt in its 
veins the awakening of a new life, was the more encour- 
aged, and became more impatiently eager to direct its own 
destinies. 

For a time, however, it seemed as if fate had wafted us 

forevermore under the domination of this Republic. In- 
fluences counter to altruism and ambitions which defile 



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democratic traditions had won the day in this country. 
The Philippines were placed first under a military regime 
and then under a provisional civil government from the 
year 1902. 

The man whose memory we honor to-day was then 
already a Member of the House. As a member of a party 
which had championed the best traditions of America, he 
sympathized from the very beginning with national aspi- 
rations of the Filipinos; and although, with his party, he 
was defeated in Congress on the question of what should 
be the status of the Philippine Islands, he did not abandon 
the enterprise, pinning his hopes upon better times. 

The opportunity soon came with the victory of his party 
in 1912. The Democratic Party, as already indicated, has 
always cherished the national tradition of not embarking 
in an enterprise which carries with it the domination of an 
alien race. In the presidential campaigns of 1900, 1904, 
1908, and 1912 it had consistently maintained the same 
policy concerning the Philippines, with minor alterations 
as to form. 

Hence it was that stupendous forces had to array them- 
selves in order to bring about the ratification of the treaty 
of Paris. And even in the discussion of the organic act of 
1902 the claim of the Democratic Party that the desires of 
the Filipino people be respected was vigorously asserted. 

Congressman Jones was not unmindful of these ante- 
cedents when in 1912 he presented his first bill giving 
autonomy to the Philippines. Being a man of conviction 
and of courage, and, more than this, a man of lofty ideals, 
he felt that the opportunity he awaited had come, and he 
renewed with vigor the campaign for the restoration of 
the political rights of the Filipinos. Four years later he 
was triumphant. 

It was through Congressman Jones, therefore, that the 
Democratic Party fulfilled a promise that was proclaimed 



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repeatedly during four consecutive presidential cam- 
paigns. It was through him that America translated into 
concrete letters an item of her genuine democracy — the 
nondomination of another people against their consent. 

America should appreciate the generous endeavors of 
this illustrious son! The Democratic Party should revere 
him as one of their brilliant satellites! Both America and 
the Democratic Party owe him a deht of gratitude for hav- 
ing thus staged in colonial history the pageant of a lus- 
trous altruism! 

In the hearts of the Filipinos the memory of William 
Atkinson Jones will ever be dearly cherished. Long will 
we pay trihute to that magnanimous man. While it can 
not be said of him that for the Filipinos he is " First in 
peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his country- 
men," indisputably he is the American most dear to our 
hearts. 



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Address of Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: William A. Jones, of Virginia, was my 
friend, and for him I entertained a high regard and sincere 
friendship, commencing with my coming to Congress in 
the winter of 1910. I first met him in November, 1909, at 
Butler, Mo., where he attended the funeral services of his 
close personal friend, the gifted David A. De Armond, 
whose tragic death brought sorrow to so many. I was first 
attracted to Mr. Jones by the known close friendship that 
existed between him and De Armond, who for nearly 
twenty years represented here with marked ability the 
sixth congressional district of Missouri. Beginning their 
terms together in 1890, their relations were as close as 
brothers. The fact that I was the successor and friend of 
Mr. De Armond brought me more quickly into a personal 
relation with William A. Jones, whose friendship and 
courtesy I deeply appreciated. For two years I was a 
member of the Committee on Insular Affairs, of which he 
was the able chairman for a number of years. During 
that service he was the author of constructive legislation 
for the Philippine Islands and for Porto Rico, meeting the 
hopes of those peoples and the best judgment of our 
own country. With singular ability he met the task as- 
signed to him, and for the work done he will long be held 
in grateful remembrance in the affections of both the 
Filipinos and the Porto Ricans who yearned for a happy 
settlement of their troublous conditions. I hope the laws 
enacted by Congress through the guidance of this dis- 
tinguished Virginian will help to bring lasting peace and 
prosperity to these countries now so closely allied to us. 

It was my fortune a few years ago, with two other 
Members of Congress — Judge Towner, of Iowa, and Judge 

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Taylor, of Alabama — to go on a delightful trip by boat 
down the Potomac into his district as his guest. He 
showed us many places of interest, among them Strat- 
ford, the historic home of the Lees, in Westmoreland 
County, Va, It was at Stratford that Robert E. Lee and 
Light Horse Harry Lee were born and reared. A wonder- 
ful brick mansion of ancient structure nearly 300 years 
old still graces this home. He took us also to the place 
where George Washington was born, and where a beauti- 
ful shaft is erected as a monument to his memory, upon 
the spot where once stood his colonial home, his birth- 
place, now long since destroyed by fire. This shaft was 
erected through the efforts of Mr. Jones. In this same 
county he showed us where Monroe, of historic fame, one 
of the Presidents, had lived. A ragged old oak tree stands 
there as a modest sentinel near where the house once 
stood in which Monroe lived, but now long since gone. 
Xo monument is there to mark the home of him who gave 
name to the famous Monroe doctrine, only an old field, 
uncultivated and uncared for, now owned, I was told, by 
an old negro man, a relic of the days of slavery, when 
master and slave lived in harmony together. The recol- 
lection of this trip will always be a pleasure to me. 

Long service in Congress, his faithful discharge of duty, 
his marked ability, and his success as a legislator, and 
particularly as chairman of the committee which he 
honored, made him the fit and worthy Representative of 
a great and historic Virginia district, which continued to 
send him here for a long period of years, serving at his 
death his fourteenth term in Congress. What a tribute 
to a great public servant, so long honored by his district, 
whose confidence he deservedly retained, faithful to the 
■ ml. The high office was to him a position of trust, 
worthily bestowed and honorably held. He died in the 
harness of official life and the memory of Ids charming 



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life and the splendid record left by him will not only be 
a sweet heritage to those who loved him but will be his 
monument, worthily erected by his own services well ren- 
dered by this distinguished Virginian and strong Ameri- 
can citizen. He lived a good life. He traveled safely 
along the paths of a well-ordered career. From the mys- 
teries of life he has gone into the shadows of the great 
beyond, and if a well-spent life and honorable career can 
open the gates of eternal life to a true soul, William A. 
Jones is now already safe in the enjoyment of an assured 
reward. 



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Address of Mr. Yangco, of the Philippine Islands 

Mr. Speaker: I am certainly grateful to the House for 
the privilege extended to me of saying a few words on this 
occasion. I have anxiously desired to pay in this Hall a 
formal trihute of affection and respect to Congressman 
William A. Jones, of Virginia, not only that I may echo 
the voice of my country, but also that I may express my 
proper sentiments. 

I met Mr. Jones on one of my visits to this country four 
years ago. The personality of the Congressman was sim- 
ply arresting, and the impression he left in me on that first 
meeting I shall never forget. His mode of speech, meas- 
ured, firm, and emphatic, was such as to send a thrill of 
admiration in one's being. That gentle and piercing 
glance, lucid eyes, spoke of a grandeur of soul within the 
man. They concealed firm resolve and devotion to a just 
cause. 

I have seen Mr. Jones many times thereafter. As if by a 
magnetic force I found myself being drawn to him, and I 
have liked him more and more. He was one of those few 
individuals whose influence, once felt, is difficult to 
elude. 

As chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs Mr. 
Jones was well known in the Philippines. His repeated 
attempts to secure for the Philippines a more liberal form 
of government, one that was to be consonant with the 
rapid advancement of the archipelago, were hailed there 
with delight; and the people have looked upon him as the 
leader of their cause in this body. 

The early part of the year 1916 was a period of intense 
labor for Congressman Jones. He had just secured the 



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favorable report of the committee on his bill with regard 
to the Philippine Islands, and the Senate Committee on 
the Philippine Islands was disposed to take the same fa- 
vorable action. That was the same bill which to-day is the 
new organic act of the Philippines. It did not embody all 
that Mr. Jones had desired to be embodied in its provi- 
sions, nor was it a complete response of America to the 
righteous claims of Philippine nationalism, but it was the 
only kind of more liberal legislation for the Philippines 
which bore the promise of sanction in both Houses of 
Congress. As Senator Robinson has said in one of his 
recent speeches, the opposition to that bill, as well as to 
the Clarke amendment, " was organized and powerful, 
and the contest was one of the fiercest he had observed in 
Congress during 15 years' service." Mr. Jones worked for 
the passage of the bill with the energy, the firmness, and 
the fortitude of an apostle. He was even branded as a 
traitor to the Republic, but his adamantine courage fal- 
tered not. He was convinced of the justice of the cause he 
championed, and he labored on and on. Who knows but 
that his exertions then were the immediate cause of a 
physical collapse which soon thereafter enused? 

Rut the bill of his endeavors passed both Houses of Con- 
gress, and he heard from across the ocean the jubilant ac- 
claim of a grateful people. 

The month of September, 1916, ushered a new era in the 
history of the Philippines. It was then that the Jones law 
operated in full force. The government of the Philippines 
was reorganized. Many changes were introduced. 
Among these were the creation of the Philippine senate, 
elected by direct popular vote. In every department of 
government the natives were given a participation greater 
than ever before. For the first time they became real 
participants in the guidance of their own affairs. It was 
the boon of the Jones law, and the name of the Congress- 

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man was on every lip from one end of the archipelago to 

the other. 

The Jones law was not a premature piece of legislation. 
The Filipinos have more than measured up to the expec- 
tation of its author. The machinery it created is to-day 
functioning smoothly. The people have become more 
contented. Knowing that America's promise of complete 
independence will some day be redeemed, they have con- 
centrated their energies on the task of making the progress 
of the land most substantial. We are to-day advancing 
by leaps and bounds. We will set a record in colonial 
history. 

A little incident is not out of place in this connection. I 
remember that when the Jones bill was being discussed in 
Congress there was a prominent American attorney in the 
Philippines who hurried to these shores in order to aid in 
the general campaign against the passage of the bill. He 
went back disappointed. Shortly before Mr. Jones's death 
the same attorney appeared at his office and congratu- 
lated him for the splendid results which the new form of 
government has brought about in the Philippines. " But, 
my friend," inquired the Congressman, " were you not 
here two years ago to oppose with your influence and 
power the passage of my bill? " " It is true," replied the 
attorney, " but you were right and I was wrong." 

Hardly, however, had the new order of things been in- 
augurated when our benefactor and friend passed into 
the great beyond. His death is a national loss to my 
country. His Dame will ever be chiseled in the tablets 
of our memory. We love him because he made possible 
for us the dawn of a grander day; because he opened the 
vista of a cheerful national future. The greater Philip- 
pines that is hoped lo he coming, when the realignments 
of tin' world's dominions shall have been completed, will 

be the most fitting monument to his name and deeds. 

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Address of Mr. Yangco, of the Philippine Islands 

Mr. Speaker, I find no words forceful enough with 
which to express the grief of my people for the death of 
Congressman Jones. Never in the annals of our land have 
we, as a people, felt so bitterly the death of an alien 
friend. It seems as if something has been wrenched away 
from our national being — something torn away from the 
very fibers of our hearts. 

From most of the Provinces and municipalities of the 
Philippines resolutions of condolence have come in num- 
bers; many municipalities have already taken steps to per- 
petuate his name in stone, if not in marble. Manila, the 
capital of the archipelago, will name after him the largest 
and most costly bridge that spans the Pasig River. The 
Philippine Legislature has appropriated funds for the 
erection of a mausoleum over his tomb in Warsaw, Va., 
his home town, and a monument in Manila. All these, 
gentlemen, are but the pallid signs of the gratitude of my 
people to the man. In our heart of hearts we miss him 
and mourn his loss. 



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Address of Mr. Davila, of Porto Rico 

Mr. Speaker: Less than two years have elapsed since 
that memorable occasion, of singular historical signifi- 
cance for the people of Porto Rico, when a venerable and 
manly voice rose in this Chamber, filling it with the into- 
nation that comes only from true greatness and farsighted 
statesmanship, to urge, I dare say, to demand for the last 
time, as it had repeatedly demanded before, that a new 
charter of liberties, involving reforms of a fundamental 
character, be granted to that island of the West Indies 
which destiny brought within the folds of the American 
flag as a result of the Spanish- American War. The voice 
was that of the late Hon. William Atkinson Jones, of Vir- 
ginia; the occasion was the final debate in this House on 
the organic act now in force in Porto Rico. It is, there- 
fore, but fitting that I, as the representative of the people 
for whose betterment and progress he did so much from 
his office as a Member of this Congress and from his post 
of honor as chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs, 
in this solemn moment, when the daily labors of this body 
have been suspended and his former colleagues congre- 
gate to do honor to his memory and to mourn his loss, 
should unite my voice to theirs in formal and heartfelt 
recognition of his noble and successful efforts in behalf 
of my countrymen. 

Representative Jones took the first step in the path of 
our liberty, supplying the basic draft for a new law, 
which, although it does not contain all the justice thai 
Porto Rico demands, it nevertheless represents consider- 
able progress in the recognition by Congress of our politi- 
cal rights. Other Btatesmen will come after him to con- 
tinue thi' work he started, applying thereto broad views 



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and, as in his case, a great spirit of justice; but to him 
should go the credit for having initiated this worthy task. 

It was my good fortune and privilege to have met and 
admired Mr. Jones some months before his death de- 
prived this body of his able counsel and services. I found 
it a source of great satisfaction that my personal contact 
and association with him, although regrettably short, 
should have enabled me to confirm the esteem and ad- 
miration that I had previously conceived for him at a dis- 
tance, from Porto Rico, where his altruistic utterances had 
already resounded. It is not for me, however, to recount 
his many virtues and the brilliancy of his record as a 
Member of this august assembly; others have done that 
more ably and eloquently than I can. 

But I would be derelict in my duty were I not on this 
solemn occasion to record the fact that the demise of this 
venerable statesman caused profound grief among the 
people of Porto Rico, who loved and honored him in life 
as they will continue to love and honor his memory, and 
who look upon his disappearance as a great loss, not only 
to the present but also to the future generations of the 
island — to the present one, because it knows that it has 
lost a friend who was ready at any time to place the for- 
midable power of his energy and prestige on the side of 
those who struggle for immediate and wider concessions 
to the native islanders along the line of self-government; 
and to the future ones, because, if his enthusiastic 
espousal of the reform measure, which is now a law, is 
to be taken as an index of the attitude he would have 
adopted with reference to the determination of the final 
political status of the island as regards her relations to 
the central Government of the United States, we feel war- 
ranted in the belief that, had he lived and statehood for 
Porto Rico as a solution of this problem should be 
concluded impracticable, as it is believed by prominent 



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leaders here, he would have supported with equal enthu- 
siasm and vigor the establishment in Porto Rico of an in- 
dependent republic, politically removed from this great 
country, hut bound forever to it by indissoluble ties of 
friendship, gratitude, and interest. And I am sure that 
he would not have proposed any measure of definite char- 
acter with regard to our status without a previous consul- 
tation of the people of Porto Rico in accordance with the 
right of self-determination. 

No posts in the legislative system of the American Gov- 
ernment are so vital to the people living in our island 
possessions as are those of chairmen of the committees of 
the House and Senate dealing with our insular affairs. 
Upon the views of the men who occupy these two positions 
the hopes and aspirations of the island people depend to a 
degree that can hardly be realized by those Americans 
who live within the confines of the continental United 
States. 

At no time since Gen. Miles and his army of deliverance 
landed on their shores 20 years ago has the status of the 
Porto Rican people been clearly defined. The Philippines, 
coming into the American system under similar conditions 
and practically with the same aspirations, have had their 
future definitely mapped out, due largely to the untiring 
anil statesmanlike labors of him whose memory we have 
met to honor to-day; and the status of Porto Rico alone 
has remained unsettled, although he did much toward es- 
tablishing a definite policy and system of government for 
that island. 

It is licit too much to say. Mr. Speaker, thai during the 
tenure of his office as chairman of the Committee on In- 
sular Affairs more was accomplished in this direction than 

in all of the preceding years of the American occupation. 
That fact was fully recognized by our people and for that 

reason the organic act which bears his Dame will keep his 



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memory alive in Porto Rico for generations yet to come. I 
have recently referred upon this floor to the anomalies of 
our status, and this is not the occasion to more than refer 
to the subject. But I am glad of the opportunity to say 
that from the Stygian darkness that surrounded the Porto 
Rican situation for nearly 20 years Congressman Jones did 
much to lead his country to the light. And for the begin- 
ning that we were able to make, by reason of his assist- 
ance, along the road which leads to complete sovereignty 
we will always feel profoundly grateful. 

That gratitude was manifested in an official way by the 
Legislature of Porto Rico, speaking for the people as a 
whole. I was requested by cable to express their deep 
sympathy to the family in their bereavement. And when 
I accompanied the casket back to the Old Dominion to 
lay him at rest in the soil that has received back so many 
illustrious sons whose labors in this life have been spent 
in the unceasing struggle for human freedom I went not 
only as a member of the funeral committee of this House 
but as the official representative of a million and a half 
Porto Ricans who mourned his death as sincerely as did 
the people of Virginia. 

I am glad to have heard the name of my country from 
the lips of the chairman of the Committee on Insular Af- 
fairs, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Garrett], the 
Representative from Virginia [Mr. Saunders], and the 
Representative from Missouri [Mr. Dickinson]. I thank 
them for their recollections. I feared that the name of my 
country was to be entirley ignored and that no mention 
was going to be made of the efforts of Mr. Jones in favor 
of Porto Rico. I do not say that as a complaint. I recog- 
nize that the work of Mr. Jones in his labors for the in- 
dependence of the Philippine Islands was more conspicu- 
ous than the work done in favor of Porto Rico, and it is 
natural that the speakers should have given special atten- 

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tion to the principal achievements of our lost friend. I 
want, however, to remind you of the fact that there is an 
island in the Carihhean Sea belonging to the United States 
which wants to he fully known to this country and which 
expects to receive in the near future entire justice at the 
hands of the people of the United States. 



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Address of Mr. Watson, of Virginia 

Mr. Speaker : In offering a word of respect to the mem- 
ory of Mr. Jones I can not pretend to speak with the inti- 
mate knowledge of his character and career possessed by 
others who have preceded me. Before I came to Congress 
my acquaintance with him was but casual. My home in 
Virginia was remote from his own, and there was but 
slight intercourse between his constituency and mine. But 
his ancestors on one side had gone from my section of the 
State, and his kinspeople were among my personal friends 
and neighbors. 

It was for this reason that I felt an interest in his career, 
and that when I came here I sought with him, as opportu- 
nity offered, relations of respect and good will. While, by 
reason of his failing health, our intercourse was limited, I 
came close enough to his life and work to conceive great 
respect for his character and ability. 

He was no ordinary man. In the mutations of public 
life no ordinary man can stay in Congress 27 consecutive 
years. In a popular government it is inevitable, and it is 
right that the people should differ respecting public meas- 
ures, and the Bepresentative who to-day is in the high 
tide of public favor may to-morrow find his opinions have 
ceased to reflect the constituent will and be compelled to 
yield place to another; likewise, should no public meas- 
ure intervene conflicting personal ambitions not infre- 
quently arise to work a change in representation. But not- 
withstanding these causes for change, ever operative in 
Virginia as elsewhere, Mr. Jones succeeded in retaining the 
undiminished confidence and support of a high-class 
constituency for nearly 30 years. With one exception, no 

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man in Virginia has come to tins body for so long a con- 
secutive period; and of the ten thousand, living and dead, 
who, since the beginning of the Government, have attended 
here, but few, indeed, have enjoyed such unbroken public 
favor. 

Such a record speaks for itself; and without high quali- 
ties of head and of heart no man could hold it. 

It would be interesting to speculate upon the causes of 
success in a public career so long sustained. Men differ, 
perhaps, less in intellectual endowment than they do in 
industry and force of will. Were I called upon to analyze 
Mr. Jones's personal equipment for the public service, 
without detracting from his mental ability, I would say his 
will power and capacity for labor were his distinguishing 
characteristics. Who of those called to witness his last 
days could question the will and the industry that, despite 
disease and infirmity, held him to the ceaseless grind of 
our routine work here and enabled him to meet daily the 
exacting demands of public duty? What an inspiration 
to others was the spectacle of his leaning form and en- 
feebled step as he slowly wended his weary way in and 
out among us nearly to the end! Rarely has there been 
such a triumph of mind over the weaknesses of the flesh. 

Strong will and persevering endurance were certainly 
marked traits in his character. Rut in this world of bal- 
anced compensations we are frequently called to pay a 
penalty even for our virtues, and these traits may at times 
have betrayed him into a too persistent maintenance of 
his own opinions. There were some, perhaps, urgent upon 
their own views, who thought him obstinate, ami his Lead- 
ership was sometimes embarrassed by what they deemed 
his unwillingness to compromise conflicting opinions. 
That he was a man of warm feeling and positive convic- 
tions was undoubtedly true, and that he was emphatic 
and occasionally combative in their assertion is likewise 

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true. He had that kind of courage, none too common 
in public place, to stand up and be counted even in a 
minority of one. 

After all, it is not so easy to draw the line between per- 
sonal conviction and public duty — between the respect a 
man owes himself and the regard that is due to the opin- 
ions of others. The Representative who has no convic- 
tions of his own we should not expect to long defend any 
cause. The thoughtful student of our institutions would, 
perhaps, say that there was less of courage than intelli- 
gence in public life, and that public assemblies were more 
in need of backbone than of brains. Whatever else he 
was, Mr. Jones was not a timeserver nor a courtier; the 
band wagon had no attractions for him; he never crooked 
the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might follow 
fawning. 

He was not an old man, as men reckon time, but he 
had lived to see many changes in the history of his coun- 
try. He was born under the institution of slavery, in a 
slave Commonwealth, and when there were 4,000,000 
slaves in his native land; he lived to strive to give freedom 
and independence to 10,000,000 dependents in the far- 
away isles of the Pacific. As a cadet youth he bore arms 
for the Southern Confederacy; he died a lawgiver of the 
restored Union. He saw the end of an era — one civiliza- 
tion pass away and another civilization rise to take its 
place. He saw the domestic institutions of his people — 
their whole social and economic fabric — perish in the 
shock of war; comfort, ease, and wealth destroyed in 
the twinkle of an eye, and poverty, toil, and want come 
in their stead. He underwent the rule of the stranger and 
the freedman — a combination of avarice and ignorance 
which well-nigh extinguished the hopes of his people; 
but he lived to see the survival of the fittest at last, and to 
take a man's part in the restoration of his country. 

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Surely a life crowded with such scenes and activities as 
these was neither uneventful nor unimportant. 

Mr. Speaker, I was among those designated in the past 
year to attend the funeral obsequies of our deceased col- 
league. It was a melancholy privilege, yet I douht if any 
who were of that company will ever forget the occasion 
and the journey to his last resting place. The contrast be- 
tween the dust and toil of this crowded Capital in times of 
war and that remote Virginia hamlet could not have been 
greater had we heen transported to another world. In 
fact, we were in another world, yet fragrant with the 
breath of the past and surrounded on all sides by monu- 
ments of a by-gone age. 

There on the tidewater between the Rappahannock and 
the Potomac beat the heart of the Old Dominion in the 
days before the Revolution; hard by were the birthplaces 
of many of the fathers of the American Republic; and 
here and there towering above the silent landscape like 
lone sentinels of the past stood "Stratford" and "Mount 
Airy " and " Sabine Hall " — the venerable mansions of 
the Lees, the Tylers, and the Carters. The gracious hos- 
pitality of the people bespoke the old civilization. Re- 
turning spring had brought back the green grass and the 
sweet flowers of nature; the whole scene was thai of tran- 
quillity, and the very atmosphere was restful. 

There upon his native heath, amid the scenes of his 
childhood, among his kindred and his friends, we laid our 
distinguished colleague to rest. 

After life's fitful fever be sleeps well. 



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Address of Mr. Bland, of Virginia 

Mr. Speaker: The people of the first congressional dis- 
trict of Virginia desire that on this occasion I testify anew 
to the love and esteem which they hore the Hon. William 
A. Jones. He was their Representative in this Hall for 
many years. He was my friend. Yet I know that I can 
not tell how completely his people loved and trusted him. 

Mr. Jones was unostentatious. He was unaffected. He 
loved the truth for itself. To him the language of fulsome 
flattery would have been repelling. Given his choice now, 
he would select the language of unfeigned affection, and, 
as best I may, I shall try to set for my remarks here the 
limitations he would most prefer. 

Memorial exercises must carry a note of sadness. Yet 
when a Member dies it is fitting that his fellows see that 
he is not forgotten. It is well that they pause long enough 
to strew flowers upon his tomb and to wreathe immor- 
telles for his memory. The death angel ever hovers near. 
During the past 12 months death has been busy in this 
Hall. His shafts have been flying fast. For many the last 
roll call has sounded. Fortunate is the man whose life 
has been crowded to the full with labors well done and 
worth the doing. Fortunate is the world when one's life 
has been crowned with achievements which have added to 
the sum of human happiness. Such a life we contem- 
plate now. So lived and died William A. Jones- 

We turn to-day to Mr. Jones in last farewell, to tell the 
story of his life, to pay a just, though humble, tribute to 
his memory, and to say to him, in the language of love, 
" Dead, but not forgotten." Other tongues used to the 
language of eulogy will tell how faithfully he worked and 
how full of wisdom were his words of counsel. Be it my 
part to say, " His people loved him." As the years passed 

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there came the abiding assurance that while he might be 
here, then to the extent that he could control justice would 
be done and right would prevail. With calm confidence 
in his judgment, industry, and truth, they were content. 
When the sad intelligence flashed forth that their old- 
time friend and counselor was gone, their heads were 
bowed as one. They lamented sorely him upon whom 
they had learned so completely to rely, for with them the 
question as to any matter had ceased to be, "What will 
Mr. Jones do?" but it was "What is the right of the 
cause?" for well they knew that as Divine Providence 
gave him the light to see the right, so the right would be 
done. 

For nearly 28 years Mr. Jones served his people in this 
Hall. He saw many changes. His colleagues from Vir- 
ginia have all gone. With him in that first Congress 
wherein he served were, among others, in this body 
Charles T. O'Ferrall, William H. F. Lee, and H. St. George 
Tucker, while in the Senate were the eloquent John W. 
Daniel and the beloved John S. Barbour. On this floor, 
not to mention many illustrious names, were Hilary A. 
Herbert, Jolm H. Bankhead, and old Joe Wheeler, of Ala- 
bama; Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia; Jonathan P. Dolliver, 
of Iowa; Isidor Rayncr, of Maryland; Henry C. Lodge, of 
Massachusetts; Bryan, of Nebraska; De Armond, of Mis- 
souri; Bourke Cockran and Sereno Payne, of New York; 
Joseph W. Bailey and Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; and Wil- 
liam L. Wilson, of West Virginia. 

The now splendid Stales of Arizona, New Mexico, Okla- 
homa, and Utah were then only Territories. 

The limes have changed. Others have come to occupy 
the stage, and new issues confront the world. Great ques- 
tions have been settled or have become of minor im- 
portance. Tile chasm lei! wide open by civil strife has 
slowly closed. While here Mr. JONBS saw lhal valiant 



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son of the South, his former colleague on this floor, old 
Joe Wheeler, leading the Federal armies to a glorious 
victory. He lived to see the sons of men who had worn 
the gray, fighting side hy side with the sons of men who 
had worn the hlue, die for the glory of their reunited 
country. Soon peace waved her magic wand. Agricul- 
ture smiled, and Industry made merry music. For a little 
while the doors of the Temple of Janus were closed, and 
Mr. Jones knew the heart cry of his people that they might 
remain closed forever. But that could not be, and ere he 
went to sleep war had again descended on his land. 

In his career here Mr. Jones played a manly part. He 
was a constructive statesman. To the solution of many 
perplexing problems he brought a well-trained and an 
honest mind. He kept ever before him the splendid ideals 
of his country and her fundamental principles. Nor did 
he swerve either to the right or to the left in their applica- 
tion. He was a man of strong personality, of courageous 
convictions, determining for himself the right of every 
cause and fighting to uphold that right to ultimate defeat 
or to final victory. For him there could be no compromise 
where the question was one of right or wrong. On such 
a question there could be for him neither halfway ground 
nor answer of expediency. Having entered the lists, he 
fought with massive strength and crushed his adversary 
beneath an avalanche of important and pertinent facts. 
He who dared once to weigh him lightly as a foe never 
made that mistake twice. 

Mr. Jones's life was given to service. The youth heard 
Virginia call and bared his breast in her defense. The 
man served his State as prosecuting attorney until his 
fame spread beyond his county. Then, called to the serv- 
ice of the Nation, he gave the best that was in him. He 
looked ever to the Constitution of his country and emu- 
lated the spirit of its founders. 



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Time will not sullice to chronicle in detail his distin- 
guished career. By his services for the Filipinos and Porto 
Ricans he made himself immortal. As their champion 
he will always be remembered and loved. As the eyes of 
free America must turn to Virginia and rest lovingly on 
the birthplace and the burial place of Washington, so the 
eyes of a different race in a distant sea, through coming 
years, will turn with increasing love to Warsaw, Va., and 
pay the tribute of a tear as they rest upon that green 
grave in a quiet churchyard wherein sleeps their great 
champion and friend. 

In this great service which Mr. Jones rendered there is 
no mystery. In his district the first apostle of American 
freedom, Nathaniel Bacon, had closed his mighty labors 
and found a final resting place. Mr. Jones was born in 
a county adjoining that wherein the Father of his Coun- 
try first saw the light of day. Hard by was the birthplace 
of that great Virginian, Robert E. Lee. Just a little way 
was the home of Light Horse Harry Lee of immortal fame. 

Not far away was the home of James Monroe. The 
district which he represented was inhabited by a people 
who gloried in the splendid traditions of a mighty past 
and who acknowledged no masters. With them Wash- 
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Tyler were house- 
hold words. Each epoch of our country's history had 
here the echo of heroic deeds. In bis district the final 
struggle for American freedom had been fought and won, 
and it is not strange that in his periodical visits to his 
people, as he paused for a little while on the sacred plains 
of Yorktown, his soul caught the exultant cry of his 
fathers, and the freedom which they had won for him, his 
sympathy, his love, his unwavering zeal and his splendid 
genius made possible for the Filipino. Though strength 
failed, there was no abatement in his mighty efforts. He 
fought on until Filipino freedom was assured. 



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Hear him as the great work of his life reached consum- 
mation, when standing on this floor he said : 

Mr. Chairman, permit me to say in conclusion, that fervently 
believing with that great apostle of human liberty, Thomas Jef- 
ferson, " that the people of every country are the only safe 
guardians of their own rights," my prayer is that the day is not 
far distant when we shall see arise in the Far East a free and 
independent Christian nation, to be known throughout the world 
as the " Republic of the Philippine Islands." 

Speaking of the great measure which came from his 
hands and carried hope and comfort to the Filipinos, Mr. 
Jones said: 

When the President of the United States affixes his signature 
to this already too long-delayed measure of justice and right it 
will mark an epoch in the history of this Nation as well as in that 
of the Philippine Islands, for the pages of the annals of the 
world will be searched in vain for its counterpart. For it not 
only bestows upon the Philippine people a measure of self-gov- 
ernment such as they have never enjoyed under the sovereignty 
of this or any other nation, but it establishes what to them is 
dearer than all else — the everlasting covenant of a great and 
generous people, speaking through their accredited representa- 
tives, that they shall in due time enjoy the incomparable blessings 
of liberty and freedom. 

I can not close, Mr. Speaker, without calling attention 
to the tribute which on August 18, 1916, the able delegate 
from the Philippine Islands paid Mr. Jones on the floor of 
this House. It is worth repetition here. Voicing the 
sentiments of his people, that delegate, turning to Mr. 
Jones, said: 

Mr. Jones, I have witnessed your untiring work on this bill; 
I have seen your unselfish devotion to the cause of the Philippine 
independence, honestly believing that it was demanded by God's 
own law, but also by the best interests of your country and mine. 
As the chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs, which is in 
charge of legislation affecting the Philippines, you have con- 
sidered it to be your paramount duty to write into law the 
covenant of your fathers and the spirit of America — freedom for 

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all. By this bill, which is the result of your hard labor — labor 
you have carried out at the risk of your own life, for you have 
been working in spite of ill health — you are entitled, in my esti- 
mation, to a prominent place in the list of the advocates of 
human liberty. Surely your name will be written in letters of 
gold in the history of the Philippine Islands. You have earned 
not only the eternal gratitude but the love of every individual 
Filipino. God bless you. 

In less than two years from that day the summons had 
come. The last roll call had been answered. 

To-day the eyes of the world rest upon Paris. America 
stands there as the hope of the future, and President 
Wilson has been greeted as the personification of free- 
dom. Permit me to say just here that when our late great 
struggle came on, and liberty-loving, unselfish, glorious 
America sprang to the front, the work of William A. 
Jones for Filipino freedom sent her forth as the cham- 
pion of liberty, bearing an untarnished escutcheon and 
flashing a stainless blade. 

In conclusion, let me say of him what he said on a simi- 
lar occasion of another great Virginian. Standing on this 
floor, Mr. Jones said of John S. Barbour that which is so 
true of himself that I now pay to him the tribute which 
he then paid to another. 

He was a politician of stainless honor, a statesman of spotless 
personal character, and a patriot who loved his country with all 
the intensity of a heart that was comprehensive enough to cm- 
brace humanity itself. And again, he was, withal, the kindliest, 
tendcrest, and most generous of men. 

At this point Mr. Butler resumed the chair. 

Adjournment 

Then, in accordance with the resolution previously 
adopted, the House (at 5 o'clock and 20 minutes p. in.) 
adjourned until Monday, February 17, 1910, at 11 o'clock 
a. m. 

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Wednesday, April 17, 1918. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by G. F. 
Turner, one of its clerks, communicated to the Senate the 
intelligence of the death of Hon. William A. Jones, late a 
Representative from the State of Virginia, and transmitted 
resolutions of the House thereon. 

Mr. Swanson. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay be- 
fore the Senate the resolutions which have just been re- 
ceived from the House of Representatives. 

The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate 
the resolutions of the House. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

In the House of Representatives 

of the United States, 

April 17, 1918. 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. William A. Jones, a Representative from the 
State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That a committee of 18 Members, with such Members 
of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to attend the 
funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

Mr. Swanson. Mr. President, in the loss of Congress- 
man Jones, of Virginia, Virginia loses one of her oldest 



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and ablest Representatives. He represented the first dis- 
trict of Virginia creditably and ably for 28 years. The 
country has lost one of its most efficient and ablest men. 
I offer the following resolutions and ask for their 
adoption. 

The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 227) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
lows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
announcement of the death of Hon. William A. Jones, a Repre- 
sentative from the State of Virginia. 

Resolved, That a committee of six Senators he appointed by 
the Vice President to join a committee appointed by the House 
of Representatives to attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy 
thereof to the family of the deceased. 

The Vice President appointed, under the second reso- 
lution, as a committee on the part of the Senate Mr. 
Swanson, Mr. Overman, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Henderson, 
Mr. Norris, and Mr. McXarv. 

Mr. Swanson. Mr. President, as a further mark of 
respect to the memory of this distinguished statesman 
and able public servant 1 move thai the Senate do now 
adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 5 
o'clock and 10 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
to-morrow, Thursday, April 18, 1918, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 



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[Gathered and prepared by Gaudencio Garcia.] 
PROLOGUE 

History records instances of great men whose work and 
influence extend beyond the confines of their respective 
countries and whose glory and fame repose in foreign peo- 
ples. England had her Burke, whose statesmanship was 
and is better understood and appreciated in America than 
in England. France had her Lafayette, whose labors and 
sacrifices during the American Revolution won for him 
the admiration and love of the American people. Spain 
had her Morayta, whose defense of the cause of the Fili- 
pino people made him more popular in the Philippines 
than in Spain. And if we scan the list of America's great 
men we will find the name of William Atkinson Jones 
more loved and venerated in the Philippines than in the 
United States. 

William Atkinson Jones was one of those men who live 
and die for an ideal and for a principle. He was one of 
those who dedicated their lives to an eternal principle and 
consecrated all their desires, all their longings, all their 
affection, and all their love upon that principle. 

He loved the Filipino people and brave'y championed 
our cause because he believed we represented a principle, 
that principle which forms the cornerstone of that im- 
mortal declaration of July 4, 1776. No wonder the Fili- 
pinos consider him a national figure of the Philippines 
and regard him as a national hero. 



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Jones's glory does not belong to America, although he 
labored and won his victory there, but to the Philippines, 
where his victory had a decisive effect on the collective 
life of the nation. Doubtless his glory would have been 
impossible had there not been a people whose social and 
political status was propitious for an apostolate like his. 
And if the hazards of war or the designs of destiny had 
not brought the American sovereignty to the Philippine 
Islands he would not have a propitious field for the gen- 
erous activity of his spirit. The ideal of his life would 
have remained in abstract form. His life would have 
been a nameless and barren struggle for a vague ideal. 

Jones has won a rightful place in the heart of the Fili- 
pino people and his name will surely be handed down 
with fervent gratitude from generation to generation. 

Let us then follow the national sentiment of the Filipino 
people from the moment the sad news of his sickness was 
received to the time the somber message of his death was 
transmitted. 

the illness 

It was on April 10, 1918. when the distant accent of the 
cable brought forth to the islands the sad news that Rep- 
resentative Jones was seriously ill. The news was re- 
ceived by Senate President Quezon in the form of a cable- 
gram from Resident Commissioner Jaime C. de Veyra, 
which reads as follows: 

Quezon, Manila: 

Congressman Jones, attacked by paralysis, is seriously ill. He 
was unconscious all day yesterday. 

Veyra. 

To this cablegram President Quezon replied on April 11 

;is follows: 

Vi viia, Washington: 

Please express to Congressman Jones and family my deep regret 
and sincere hope for the prompt recovery of the patient. 

Quezon. 

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When the news was made known to the public it at 
once became the topic of absorbing conversations. In the 
streets and in other public places, in Government circles 
and in family homes, relatives, friends, and acquaintances 
greet each other by asking what new development there 
was in the condition of the beloved Representative. 

Days of anxiety and painful waiting followed. The 
silence of the cable brought forth insistent inquiries as to 
whether the condition of the patient was improving. But 
on April 17 another cablegram, dated at Washington 
April 16, signed by Resident Commissioner Teodoro R. 
Yangco, and addressed to the Governor General through 
the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was received 
bringing forth the gloomy message that the Representative 
was on his deathbed. The cablegram reads as follows: 

Harrison, Manila: 

Quezon: Condition Congressman Jones extremely critical. 
Yangco. 

McIntyre. 

On April 18 President Quezon replied to this cablegram 
as follows: 

Yangco, Washington: 

Please advise me of further development of illness Congressman 

Jones. 

Quezon. 

"Extremely critical." Thus read the message, which 
produced a painful sensation throughout the islands. The 
heart of the people began to grieve at the impending loss 
of a man whom they consider theirs and to whom they are 
bound by the most intimate ties of friendship and love. 

THE DEATH 

The people were already very pessimistic with regard 
to the illness of their great friend. They were expecting 
to receive the somber message at any moment. And at 



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last their gloomy forebodings were fulfilled. Representa- 
tive Jones died. 

The first cablegram received with the sad news was 
addressed to President Quezon by Commissioner Yangco, 
dated at Washington April 17, and reads as follows: 

Quezon, Manila: 
William A. Jones died to-day, 2.30 p. m. 

Yangco. 

Subsequently, on the next day, another cablegram was 
received, confirming the previous one, and signed by Com- 
missioner Veyra. It reads as follows: 

Washington, April 17. 
Quezon, Manila: 

Congressman Jones died at noon. 

Veyra. 

Representative Jones dead! It was indeed a severe and 
crushing blow. But the people bore it with truly stoical 
equanimity and composure. Theirs was a grief without 
tears or moans — the mute, solemn grief of strong spirits 
defying death. 

The distressing news was flashed from one end of the 
archipelago to the other. A general consternation reigned 
in every home and profound grief and meditation seized 
upon the people. 

But in any crisis produced by an unusually violent emo- 
tion, as soon as the crisis is passed, the disturbed mind 
regains its composure and the pulsations of life again 
assume the norma] rhythm. Thus, the Filipino people, 
alter recovering from their first impression of grief and 
sorrow, rose as a single soul to give expression to their 
sincere and profound condolence for the death of the 
illustrious Congressman. 



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meeting of high government officials at the ayunta- 

MIENTO 

On the morning of April 19, at the office of Senate Presi- 
dent Quezon, there assembled, at the latter's call, the 
department secretaries and undersecretaries, the mayor 
and councilors of the city of Manila, the secretary of the 
Governor General, representing the latter, several senators 
who were in Manila at the time, and distinguished repre- 
sentatives of the most prominent elements of Philippine 
society for the purpose of outlining a general program of 
public solemnities to honor the memory of the departed 
friend. This meeting had the amplest national character 
because there were present at the same not only politi- 
cians of all parties but representatives of all the live forces 
of the nation, namely, merchants, industrials, agricultur- 
ists, professionals, laborers, etc. In short, the whole peo- 
ple were assembled there in order to deliberate upon the 
most worthy demonstration of its sympathy and grief. 

In that meeting several resolutions were adopted. 

It was resolved that memorial services of an eminently 
national character be held, for the organization of which 
an executive committee was formed, consisting of the 
following named — The secretary of the interior, Hon. 
Rafael Palma, as chairman; Mayor Justo Lukban; the 
members of the municipal board of the city of Manila; 
the president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce, 
D. Ramon J. Fernandez; the presidents of the political 
parties; and the presidents of the labor unions — as mem- 
bers. Member Geronimo Santiago, of the municipal 
board, acted as secretary. 

It was also resolved that the flags on all public buildings 
be hoisted at half-mast during the funeral of Mr. Jones in 
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It was resolved, further, that for three months all 
papers used by the executive bureau for official corre- 
spondence have a black border in token of mourning. 

It was resolved, finally, that instructions be cabled to 
the Resident Commissioners in Washington to first secure 
permission from the family of the deceased and then take 
the necessary steps for the construction, at the expense of 
the Filipino people, of a mausoleum upon the grave of 
Mr. Jones as a modest token of undying love. 

MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE 

Several messages of condolence were sent to the family 
of the deceased as imperfect demonstrations of the great 
grief that filled the popular heart. 

These messages are not the usual formulas of official 
courtesy, but reflect something not usually contained in 
documents of that class — the frank, unrestrained expres- 
sion of the sender's feelings. They arc messages dictated 
spontaneously. 

Here are those of the presiding officers of the houses of 
the legislature, simple and cordial: 

Commissioners DB Vkyra and Yangco, Washington: 

Mr. Jones's death is deplored by our people as its greatest na- 
tional misfortune. His death has brought grief and mourning 
into every Filipino home. Please express to Mr. Jones's family 
our heartfelt condolence and that of the legislature and of the 
people of the islands in general. Endeavor to obtain from Mrs. 
Jones authority to erect a mausoleum upon Mr. Jones's grave at 
the expense of the Filipino people. 

Osmi S \. 

Qcezon. 

In addition to this. President Quezon, as particular 
friend of the bereft family, sen I the following message of 
affection: 



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Yangco, Washington: 

Words can not express the grief of my heart upon the death of 
Mr. Jones. Please convey to Mrs. Jones and Mr. Jones, jr., and to 
Mrs. Hopkins the expression of my most heartfelt condolence and 
the offer of my services, if I can be in any way of use to them. 

Quezon. 

The cabinet expressed its condolence by means of the 
following cablegram: 

The Philippine Cabinet sincerely deplores the death of Con- 
gressman Jones, whose disinterested efforts on behalf of the cause 
of the Filipino people have not only assured the future political 
destiny of the Filipinos but have won the American Nation the 
permanent gratitude of a people. Be pleased to accept our deep- 
est condolence upon this loss, which we consider our own. 

The Nationalist Party sent the following message : 

Veyra, Yangco, Washington: 

The Nationalist Party prays you to convey to Mrs. Jones the 
expression of their deepest regret and sympathy upon the death 
of the author of the Jones law, to whom we are indebted for his 
cordial and disinterested support in our long and persistent efforts 
in behalf of the liberty of the Filipinos. His constancy and deter- 
mination in the struggle, in Congress and outside of it, and his 
success in obtaining the approval of the law that bears his name, 
entitle him to our everlasting gratitude. May the blessings of our 
people and of its generations yet unborn be showered upon his 
tomb in remembrance of his eminent services. 

The municipal government of Manila, assembled in 
special session, resolved to convey its condolence to the 
widow of the deceased by means of the following message : 

Mrs. Jones, Washington: 

The municipal government and inhabitants of Manila send you 
their sincerest condolence. Representative Jones loved the Fili- 
pino people sincerely. We shall mourn for him eternally. 

Mayor Lukban - . 

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce, immediately 
upon learning that Mr. Jones had died, sent a cablegram 
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represent the chamber at the funeral and to deposit in its 
behalf " a wreath upon the grave of the much regretted 
great benefactor of the Filipino people." 

messages of condolence from the provinces and munici- 
palities 

Besides the messages sent to Washington, telegrams and 
resolutions of condolence arrived in Manila from the pro- 
vincial and municipal governments throughout the archi- 
pelago. 

It being impossible to include all in this brief review 
we shall limit ourselves to mentioning the municipalities 
and Provinces and the numbers of the resolutions adopted 
and the telegrams received : 

ABRA 

Resolution No. 147, series of 1918, of the provincial board. 

1. Resolution No. 28, series of 1918, by township of San Quintin. 

2. Sallapandan, resolution No. 28. 

3. Lagang-ilang, no number. 

4. Telegram from the secretary of the provincial board. 

ALBAY 

1. Municipality of Virac, resolution No. 47. 

2. Municipality of Rato, resolution No. 35. 

3. Municipality of Camalig, resolution No. 30. 

4. Telegram from president of I.igao. 

5. Telegram from president of Jovellar. 

AMBOS CAMAIUNES 

1. Municipality of Nabua, resolution No. 49. 

2. Municipality of Bula, resolution No. 53. 

3. Municipality of Canaman, resolution No. 38. 

4. Municipality of C.amaligan, resolution No. 29. 

5. Municipality of Magarao, resolution No. 43. 
G. Municipality <>f I.agonoy, resolution No. 40. 

7. Municipality of Soa, resolution No. 38. 

8. Municipality of Tinambac, resolution No. 13. 

9. Municipality of San Jose, resolution No. 35. 

10. Municipality of Calabanga. resolution No. 11. 

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ANTIQUE 

Resolution No. 160, series of 1918, of the provincial board. 

1. Municipality of Patnogon, resolution No. 46. 

2. Municipality of Culasi, resolution No. 47. 

3. Municipality of Pandan, resolution No. 39. 

4. Municipality of Dao, resolution No. 20. 

5. Municipality of Valderrama, resolution No. 22. 

6. Telegram from provincial governor. 

BATAAN 

1. Municipality of Hermosa, resolution No. 67. 

2. Orion, by letter of president. 

3. Telegram from municipal president of Limay. 

4. Telegram from provincial governor. 

5. Telegram from president of Balanga. 

BATANGAS 

1. Municipality of Lobo, resolution No. 34. 

2. Municipality of Mabini, resolution No. 89. 

3. Municipality of Lemery, resolution No. 35. 

4. Municipality of Lipa, resolution No. 60. 

5. Municipality of Tuy, resolution No. 49. 

6. Municipality of Talisay, resolution No. 20. 

7. Municipality of Batangas, resolution No. 79. 

8. Municipality of Balayan, resolution No. 67. 

BOHOL 

Provincial board, resolution No. 362. 

1. Young people's annual conference, resolution No. 25. 

2. Telegram from provincial board. 

BULACAN 

1. Municipality of Malolos, resolution No. 266. 

2. Municipality of Calumpit, resolution No. 26. 

3. Telegram from municipal council of Malolos. 

4. Telegram from Felipe Resurreccion, of Sibul. 

CAGAYAN 

Resolution No. 1022, series of 1918, by the provincial board. 

1. Municipality of Aparri, resolution No. 101. 

2. Telegram from president of Aparri. 



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CAPIZ 

1. Municipality of Jamindan, resolution No. 33. 

2. Municipality of Dao, resolution No. 50. 

3. Municipality of Lezo, resolution No. 72. 

4. Municipality of Dumaleg, resolution No. 41. 

5. Municipality of Sapian, resolution No. 23. 
G. Municipality of Sigma, resolution No. 34. 

7. Telegram from municipal president of Calivo. 

8. Telegram from municipal president of Makato. 

CAVITE 

Provincial board, resolution No. 223. 

1. Municipality of Indang, resolution No. 22. 

2. Municipality of Malabon, resolution No. 21. 

3. Municipality of Rosario, resolution No. 23. 

4. Municipality of Bacoor, resolution No. 11. 

5. Municipality of Mendez, resolution No. 31. 

6. Municipality of Tanza, resolution No. 19. 

CEBU 

Provincial board, resolution No. 137. 

1. Municipality of Dalaguete, resolution No. 39. 

2. Municipality of Tuburan, resolution No. 59. 

3. Municipality of Alegria, resolution No. 37. 

4. Municipality of I.iloan, resolution No. 20. 

5. Municipality of San Fernando, resolution No. 43. 

6. Municipality of San Hemigio, resolution No. 45. 

7. Municipality of Argao, resolution No. 55. 

8. Municipality of Borbon, resolution No. 42. 

9. Municipality of Opon, resolution No. 23. 

10. Municipality of Santander, resolution No. 20. 

11. Municipality of Oslob, resolution No. 48. 

12. Municipality of Bolgoon, resolution No. 39. 

13. Municipality of Badian, resolution No. 18. 

14. Municipality of Balambnn, resolution No. 15. 

15. Municipality of Medellin, resolution No. 33. 
10. Municipality of Malabuyoc, resolution No. 50. 

17. Municipality of Tuburan, resolution No. 59. 

18. Telegram from governor of Cebu. 

19. Telegram from president of Samboan. 

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ILOCOS NORTE 

Provincial board, resolution No. 717. 

1. Municipality of Bacarra, resolution No. 51. 

2. Municipality of Badoc, resolution No. 47. 

3. Municipality of Banna, resolution No. 44. 

4. Municipality of Batac, resolution No. 101. 

5. Municipality of Burgos, resolution No. 48. 

6. Municipality of Dingras, resolution No. 141. 

7. Municipality of Laoag, resolution No. 122. 

8. Municipality of Paoay, resolution No. 79. 

9. Municipality of Pasuquin, resolution No. 80. 

10. Municipality of Piddig, resolution No. 39. 

11. Municipality of San Nicolas, resolution No. 72. 

12. Municipality of Sarrat, resolution No. 54. 

13. Municipality of Solsona, resolution No. 110. 

14. Municipality of Vintar, resolution No. 88. 

15. Municipality of Bangued, resolution No. 42. 

ILOCOS SUR 

Provincial board, resolution No. 271. 

1. Municipality of Burgos, resolution No. 96. 

2. Municipality of Cabugao, resolution No. 46. 

3. Municipality of Candon, resolution No. 23. 

4. Municipality of Caoyan, resolution No. 50. 

5. Municipality of Lapog, resolution No. 115. 

6. Municipality of Narvacan, resolution No. 105. 

7. Municipality of Sinait, resolution No. 71. 

8. Municipality of Bantay, resolution No. 51. 

9. Municipality of Santa Lucia, resolution No. 40. 

10. Municipality of Santa Maria, resolution No. 30. 

11. Municipality of Sto. Domingo, resolution No. 52. 

12. Municipality of Sta. Catalina, resolution No. 43. 

13. Municipality of San Esteban, resolution No. 40. 

14. Township of Galimuyod, resolution No. 34. 

15. Township of Lidlidda, resolution No. 21. 

ILOILO 

Provincial board, resolution No. 352. 

1. Municipality of Iloilo, resolution No. 45. 

2. Municipality of Tigbawan, resolution No. 72. 



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3. Municipality of Cabatuan, resolution No. 63. 

4. Municipality of Maasin, resolution No. 125. 

5. Municipality of Janiuay, resolution No. 59. 

6. Municipality of Barotac Vieje, resolution No. 69. 

7. Municipality of Ajuy, resolution No. 71. 

8. Municipality of Jaro, resolution No. 42. 



Provincial board, resolution No. 241. 

1. Municipality of Ilagan, resolution No. 59. 

2. Telegram from secretary of provincial board. 

LAGUNA 

1. Municipality of San Pablo, resolution No. 58. 

2. Municipality of Bay, resolution No. 27. 

LA UNION. 

1. Municipality of Bangar, resolution No. 52. 

2. Municipality of Bacnotan, resolution No. 34. 

3. Municipality of Sto. Tomas, resolution No. 71. 

4. Municipality of Agoo, resolution No. 37. 

LEYTE 

Provincial board, resolution No. 467. 

1. Municipality of Naval, resolution No. 30. 

2. Municipality of Inopacan, resolution No. 47. 

3. Municipality of Dulag, resolution No. 103. 

4. Municipality of Kiloan, resolution (no number). 

5. Municipality of Maasin, resolution No. 44. 

6. Municipality of Babatngon, resolution No. 24. 

7. Municipality of Tanawan, resolution No. 53. 

8. Municipality of Kawayan, resolution No. 39. 

9. Municipality of Capoocan, resolution No. 68. 

10. Municipality of Palo, resolution No. 71. 

11. Municipality of Manohon, resolution No. 33. 

12. Telegram from provincial governor. 

13. Telegram from president of Jaro. 

11. Telegram from president of Carigara. 
15. Telegram from president of Palompon. 



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MINDANAO AND SULU 

1. Cotabato, resolution No. 40. 

2. Mati, Davao, resolution No. 16. 

3. Provincial board of Lanao, resolution No. 55. 

4. Provincial board of Agusan, resolution No. 81. 

5. Telegram from municipal president of Davao. 

6. Telegram from representative of Davao. 

7. Telegram from governor of Davao. 

8. Telegram from governor of Agusan. 

mindoro 

1. Municipality of Calapan, resolutions Nos. 68, 70. 

2. Municipality of Paluan, resolution No. 25. 

3. Municipality of Naujan, resolution No. 32. 

4. Telegram from municipal president of Pola. 

misamis 

Provincial board, resolution No. 287. 

1. Municipality of Catarman, resolution No. 22. 

2. Municipality of Oroquiete, resolution No. 110. 

3. Municipality of Tagoloan, resolution (no number). 

4. Municipality of Mambajao, resolution No. 17. 

5. Telegram from municipal president of Oroquiete. 

6. Telegram from municipal president of Cagayan. 

7. Telegram from municipal president of Tagoloan. 

mountain province 

Provincial board, resolution No. 162. 

1. Municipality of Cervantes, resolution No. 20. 

2. Municipality of Sagada, resolution No. 16. 

3. Municipality of Bauko, resolution No. 10. 

4. Municipality of Bakun, resolution No. 20. 

5. Municipality of San Emilio, resolution No. 15. 

6. Municipality of Sudipen, Amburayan, resolution No. 16. 

7. Municipality of Tagudin, resolution No. 35. 

8. Municipality of Alilem, resolution No. 13. 

9. Municipality of Kayan, resolution No. 18. 

10. Municipality of San Gabriel, resolution No. 16. 

11. Municipality of Besao, resolution No. 18. 

12. Municipality of Santol, resolution No. 22. 



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NUEVA ECIJA 

Resolution of the provincial board, No. 1692. 

1. Municipality of Santo Domingo, resolution No. 30. 

OCCIDENTAL NEGROS 

1. Municipality of Bacolod, resolution No. 314. 

ORIENTAL NEGROS 

Provincial board, resolution No. 243. 

1. Municipality of Larena, resolution No. 64. 

2. Municipality of Siquijor, resolution No. 33. 

PAMPANGA 

Provincial board, resolution No. 217. 

PANGASINAN 

Provincial board, resolution No. 671. 

1. Municipality of Manaoag, resolution No. 88. 

2. Municipality of Lingayen, resolutions Nos. 903, 957, 967, 1190. 

3. Municipality of Mangatarem, resolution No. 39. 

4. Municipality of Bayambang, resolution No. 75. 

5. Municipality of Alcala, resolution No. 43. 

6. Municipality of Urdaneta, resolution No. 160. 

7. Municipality of Binmaley, resolution No. 51. 

8. Municipality of Natividad, resolution No. 68. 

9. Municipality of San Carlos, resolution (no number). 

10. Municipality of Balungao, resolution No. 50. 

11. Municipality of San Nicolas, resolution No. 60. 

12. Municipality of Asingan, resolution No. 52. 

13. Municipality of Agno, resolution No. 33. 

14. Municipality of Bolinao, resolution No. 35. 

15. Municipality of Santo Tomas, resolution No. 20. 

16. Telegram from municipal president of Lingayen. 

17. Telegram from provincial governor. 

18. Telegram from municipal president of San Fabian. 

RIZAL 

l. Municipality of Parafiaque, resolution No. 72. 
'J. Municipality of Cainta, resolution No. 18. 

.'!. Municipality <>f San Mateo, resolution No. 41. 



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ROMBLON 

Provincial board, resolution No. 96. 

1. Municipality of Badajoz, resolution No. 71. 

2. Municipality of San Fernando, resolution No. 22. 

3. Municipality of Romblon, resolution No. 79. 

4. Telegram from acting governor. 

SAMAR 

Provincial board, resolution No. 226. 

1. Municipality of San Antonio, resolution No. 37. 

2. Municipality of Oquendo, resolution No. 34. 

SORSOGON 

Provincial board, resolution No. 106. 

1. Municipality of Bulan, resolution No. 21. 

SURIGAO 

Telegram from secretary of the provincial board. 

TARLAC 

Provincial board, resolution No. 276. 

1. Municipality of Mayantoc, resolution No. 57. 

2. Municipality of La Paz, resolution No. 47. 

3. Municipality of Paniqui, resolution No. 45. 



1. Municipality of Laguimanoc, resolution No. 30. 

2. Municipality of Macalelon, resolution No. 31. 

3. Municipality of Mogpog, resolution No. 31. 

4. Municipality of Sariaya, resolution No. 41. 

5. Municipality of Unisan, resolution No. 56. 

6. Municipality of Alabat, resolution No. 72. 

7. Municipality of Tiaong, resolution No. 33. 

8. Municipality of Tayabas, resolution No. 21. 

ZAMBALES 

Provincial board, resolution No. 187. 

1. Municipality of Santa Cruz, resolution No. 65. 

2. Municipality of Cabangan, resolution No. 40. 

3. Municipality of San Antonio, resolution No. 47. 

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4. Municipality of San Marcelino, resolution No. 31. 

5. Municipality of Palauig, resolution No. 26. 

6. Municipality of Candelaria, resolution No. 44. 

7. Municipality of Iha, resolution No. 47. 

8. Telegram from municipal president of Candelaria. 

WHAT THE POPULAR LEADERS HAD TO SAY 

On the day on which the news of the death of the 
venerable Congressman had been confirmed the political 
leaders of the country gave frank statements to the press 
concerning the sad event. 

They are the voice of the supreme delegates of the 
people, of the recognized mentors of the masses, which, 
as in all moments of deep national crises, defines, inter- 
prets, and retlects the collective view. 

They are the voice of the whole Filipino race, repre- 
sented by its most illustrious leaders — the voice of ten 
million souls — that makes itself heard on occasion of 
great national mourning. 

From Cebu, where he was resting from the great fatigues 
of the recent parliamentary period. Speaker Osmena tele- 
graphed the following statement, which was published in 
a special issue of La Vanguardia : 

Words can not express the great sorrow felt to-day by the Fili- 
pino people on account of the death of Representative William 
Atkinson Jones. If Mr. Jones had been a Filipino, his unflag- 
ging interest in this country would have entitled him to tin- deep- 
est gratitude of the entire people. The fact that, without being a 
man of our race, he dedicated In OUT people fur nearly 20 years 
all his energy and enthusiasm entitles him so much to our respect 
and gratitude that all our grief, all the tears we shed upon the 

tomb <>f the great benefactor, will not suffice. 
Mr. Joni s's work in behalf of the Philippines) ami consequently 

our indebtedness to him, are of the greatest importance. They 
are things of the present, hut their actual results extend far into 
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However we may strive to honor the memory of Mr. Jones, we 
shall only succeed in paying a small part of our debt. The real 
and complete consecration of the efforts of that illustrious man 
shall only take place when, free from foreign tutelage, we shall 
have shown to the world that we are a nation capable of preserv- 
ing that independence for which the late departed and we fought 
shoulder to shoulder. 

Sergio Osmena. 

President Quezon, on his part, made the following: 

The death of Mr. Jones — the loyal and sincere friend of the 
Filipino people and constant champion of its liberties — is the 
greatest national loss that our country has suffered since our Rizal 
was taken from us. 

A man of the loftiest and most generous sentiments, he dedi- 
cated the last years of his service in the Congress of the United 
States to the cause of the Philippine Islands. There are other 
Representatives, Democrats as well as Republicans, who take inter- 
est in the Philippines, but I do them no injustice when I say that 
in this respect Mr. Jones had no equal. When there was any- 
thing to be done for this country he used all the prestige of his 
30 years in Congress and all the potency of his intellect. The 
most patriotic Filipino could not have devoted himself more com- 
pletely to the defense of our interests. 

The successor of Mr. Jones as chairman of the Committee on 
Insular Affairs is Mr. Garrett, Congressman for Tennessee, one of 
the Democratic leaders of the Congress. Mr. Garrett has been for 
many years Mr. Jones's second and has been identified with him 
in all his work in behalf of the Philippines. Our Commissioners 
must now endeavor to interest Mr. Garrett in everything relating 
to the Philippines, the same as they did with his illustrious 
predecessor. 

I mourn over the death of Mr. Jones as much as I have mourned 
over that of my father. I loved him with truly fdial affection, 
and I know that he responded to this feeling. 

Mr. Jones has died without seeing the realization of his supreme 
ambition — to witness the inauguration of our Republic. But when 
the Jones bill was enacted he said to me: 

" I can die happy now, because by this bill I have assured the 
independence of your country." 

Manuel L. Quezon. 

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The secretary of the interior, Hon. Rafael Palma, au- 
thorized the publication of the following statement, writ- 
ten in his own handwriting: 

He was one of the American legislators who most wisely, cou- 
rageously, and consistently championed the cause of the Filipinos 
in Congress. He did not, like the majority, commit the disgrace- 
ful vulgarity of looking upon the Philippines as a rich booty of 
war, the possession of which would redound to the profit or great- 
ness of his Nation. On the contrary, he was one of those rare, 
privileged characters who, rising above the selfish interests of the 
moment, sought their inspiration in the honorable spirit of those 
legionaries of the ideal who framed the Declaration of Independ- 
ence and who dictated to the world the laws of the liberty of the 
peoples. 

Far-seeing, he looked not only into the present, but also into 
the future, and, unaffected by any prejudice of race and civiliza- 
tion, he endeavored to assure, rather than the material dominion, 
the permanent spiritual sovereignty of the United States in the 
heart of the Filipino people by means of that splendid Magna 
Charts of liberality and justice that will go down into history 
with his name and will forever command the gratitude and bless- 
ings of the Filipino people, not only for its author, but also for 
the Nation to which he belongs. 

Rafael Palma. 

words of the governor general 

Not as a representative of the American sovereignty in 
the islands, hut as a warm friend of the deceased and a 
great friend of the Filipino people, our Governor General, 
the Hon. Francis Rurton Harrison, made the following 
statement : 

Than Congressman Jonks, the Filipino people could not have 
had a more sincere and disinterested friend. His death runsti- 
tntes a great loss to the Philippine cause, and his name should be 
eternally venerated in the islands for his constant and splendid 
work, crowned witb success in favor of your rights and liberties. 
Personalh, I have always entertained for Congressman Jones the 
highest consideration and most cordial esteem. 



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words of opposition leaders 

Voicing the sentiment of the minority at that moment of 
national mourning, the leaders of the Democratic Party 
also made public expressions of their feelings, through 
their official organ, La Nacion. We quote hereunder the 
articles signed by Emiliano Tria Tirona and Teodoro 
Sandiko, respectively: 

JONES THE IMMORTAL 

In the history of our struggles for liberty there will be one figure 
with a nimbus of unperishable glory — the great figure of the tire- 
less champion of the independence of our country, the Hon. Wil- 
liam Atkinson Jones. 

It seems to us as if we could still hear the sonorous voice of 
Mr. Jones, resounding like that of a great apostle in the august 
Chamber of the Congress of the United States, demanding the 
liberty so anxiously desired by us. The great work done and 
efforts made by that remarkable American in order to satisfy our 
longing for redemption are still fresh in our memory. It is true 
that Mr. Jones descended into the grave without seeing the final 
success of his noble efforts to attain that which he sought, the 
establishment of a free and happy Philippine Republic, yet his 
zeal in the defense of the ideals of the Filipino people constitutes 
a sacred debt which the Filipinos can not pay except by the great- 
est gratitude and veneration for the memory of the illustrious son 
of Virginia. The Filipino people can not remain indifferent 
where anything is concerned that signifies interest in its welfare 
and happiness. 

We Filipinos have lost Clark, and now we lose Jones. Will 
there be any other Clarks and Joneses after this? I have not the 
least doubt, because there is a Providence that watches over all 
just causes, and that Providence will send other champions of 
liberty to guide weak people toward their redemption. 

Mr. Jones has not really died so far as the Filipino people are 
concerned. Until our people obtain their longed-for independ- 
ence the name of Mr. Jones will be a sublime inspiration for their 
leaders and will encourage them to continue their arduous enter- 
prise with perseverance, and when the liberty bell rings for the 



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Filipino people the name of Jones shall he remembered by the 
sons of that people with the greatest affection, with the greatest 
love and veneration. 

Emiliano Tria Tirona. 

he is dead 

He is dead! The great mind that conceived and obtained a 
more autonomous form of government for our people is no more. 
The man has died, but his good works and the gratitude of an 
entire people survive him. 

The Philippines lose in William Atkinson Jones one of their 
best friends, one of the most determined champions of their 
cause, one of their most beautiful hopes for final redemption. 
But no! he pointed out a way for us with his campaigns and 
blazed the trail for all those foreigners who are interested in our 
happiness. At the end of that journey we all shall meet some 
day, Americans and Filipinos, in order to agree, at the foot of a 
monument of peace and love, in which we shall contemplate the 
tranquil face of the Representative for Virginia, upon the con- 
summation of that which we desire the most anxiously, of that 
which is ours, because liberty belongs to all! 

He was a lover of liberty, but more than liberty he worshiped 
justice. 

He desired the independence of the Filipino people with ;ill his 
heart; he battled for it with all the vigor of his generous soul; he 
fought for it with all the strength of his privileged and potent 
brain; he devoted precious years of his life to it. 

He desired the political liberty of our people and battled for it, 
considering it, not as an ideal lacking concrete form, not as a 
mere abstract and platonie aspiration, but as a high principle 
requiring to be converted into reality with a force greater than 
gravitation. He fought for it because he was thoroughly con- 
vinced that we were entitled to it and that it was but just that 
it be granted to us. 

What foreigner is more entitled to the gratitude of the Filipino 
people? 

May he rest in peace, the great man, while bis brethren are 
struggling in the worldly battle for the most beautiful ideal for 
which humans have ever struggled — the vindication of the vio- 
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peace; the Filipinos, struggling for what they consider their just 
due, will appreciate what the others will give them. 

Teodoro Sandiko. 

THE VOICE OF THE PRESS 

The daily press, echoing the public sentiment, also 
joined the chorus of those who voiced their deep grief 
over the death of the glorious author of our Magna Charta. 

The editorials of the Filipino press dealing with the sad 
event were full of feeling. And the most beautiful thing 
of all was that for the first time in its history that press, 
generally in discord and torn by conflicts and differences, 
was in accord, unanimous in voicing the same sentiments 
of integral Filipinism. Without previous agreement, each 
obeying the spontaneous impulse of the moment, the Fili- 
pino newspapers showed the most absolute concord. As 
if by enchantment, the inveterate differences separating 
them from each other'disappeared and there was no dis- 
cordant voice to disturb the general harmony. It was, 
indeed, a beautiful spectacle of true national unanimity. 

We shall reproduce here only the editorials of three 
newspapers — of the three most important newspapers of 
the country — as we believe them to represent the best 
opinion of the native press. 

From El Ideal, organ of the Nationalist Party: 

The Filipino people are in mourning. William Atkinson 
Jones, the author of the organic law of the Philippines, the illus- 
trious legislator who has, in the last few years, been working in the 
American Congress for the ideals of the Filipino people with all 
the enthusiasm of his noble soul and great heart and with all the 
powers of his potent intellect, and who, with the glorious law that 
bears his name, has given us the great sum of liberties that we 
are now enjoying, has ceased to belong to the world of the living 
in order to take his place in the temple of the immortals. 

The death of Congressman Jones is also a cause of mourning 
for the American people, who has lost in him one of its most 



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valuable Representatives, a man who has always been an honor 
to his country, a loyal and upright servant, to whom are due, in 
the first place, the blessings of this era of good understanding 
and mutual tolerance between Americans and Filipinos, and who 
has made the name of America synonymous throughout the Far 
East, and beyond it, too, with liberality, justice, and eminent 
humanitarianism in its relations with the weak peoples under the 
protection of its flag. 

In one word, William Atkinson Jones is one of the deter- 
mined and efficient apostles of human liberty and can therefore 
be considered as one of the benefactors of humanity, one of the 
great figures of the century. 

His name and his work are already permanently enshrined in 
every Filipino heart, and his disappearance from material life 
has done nothing but add to our gratitude and our respect for 
him and his people. 

So long as the Filipino people shall exist upon the face of the 
earth, so long shall the remembrance and the name of William 
Atkinson Jones occupy a prominent place among our greatest 
benefactors in the sacred book of our affection and our dearest 
traditions. 

El Ideal suggests that a grand national act of homage be dedi- 
cated to the memory of the great man and great friend of the 
Filipinos. 

From La Vanguardia, an independent newspaper: 

Our lips tremble as we announce to the people the sad news of 
the death of Congressman William Atkinson Jones. But a few 
months ago the Filipino family heard with overwhelming joy, 
with great rejoicing, the news that the real father of the new era 
would come here to pay us a visit, and now, oh, mysterious 
designs of Providence! Instead of the news of his arrival, our 
heart is touched by the tidings of the fatal issue of the illness that 
had delayed his plan to come to embrace us. 

Imagine the immense grief that now weighs upon our souls in 
view of the terrible contrast between the disappointment of our 
unexpressed affection and the awful reality of his death! There 
are moments when words are insufficient to convey what the 

heart, the heart of an entire race, is feeling. And at this psycho- 
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from the most intimate of our being the sentiments of love, of 
respect, of admiration, and gratitude which, in the intensity of 
our grief, struggle to manifest themselves. 

William Atkinson Jones! Anything that we can say will be 
but colorless, miserable, small, compared with the immensity of 
the good that he has done us, with the sublime generosity with 
which he gave himself up to our cause. That venerable gray 
head, bowed down by the miseries of life, conceived like a ray of 
prophetic inspiration the liberty of the small peoples, the dignity 
and the vindication of the subjugated races, long before that 
Niagara of blood, those horrible sacrifices, sanctioned the funda- 
mental rights of humanity violated by the greed and avarice of 
the mighty. 

Upon revising our history, which is the history of our sad, epic 
struggles for justice, we find noble foreigners who embraced our 
cause with devotion and altruism because they had built within 
their hearts a permanent shrine to Liberty which they desired to 
be the universal patrimony of all peoples, and for the sake of 
which they did not hesitate to make the greatest and most painful 
sacrifices. And when the hour of recognition came, the Filipino 
people, that people whose most prized treasure is gratitude, did 
not fail to do its duty and had immortalized in its heart, on its 
streets and squares, and in its pueblos the beloved names of Blu- 
mentritt, Pi y Margall, Morayta, and others. How could the Fili- 
pino people fail to pay this debt of gratitude to William Atkinson 
Jones, who not only understood and loved our ideals, but who, 
with all the means within his reach, by word and deed, risking 
his health, and depriving himself of many hours of rest by the 
side of his family in his home, labored hard in order that the first 
Magna Charta of our emancipation might become a tangible real- 
ity, a legacy not only for ourselves, but for our children and our 
children's children, and a stimulus and guiding star for all 
dependent peoples? 

The solemn promise contained in the preamble of the law that 
bears his name shall remain a living monument to his blessed 
memory. Thanks to him and his efforts, a bond stronger than 
iron and steel has been forged which now unites the Philippines 
and America in an ideal alliance of firm friendship. 

Our national heroes fell in the night, generously shedding their 
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blood, and merely followed the call of duty. William Atkinson 
Jones, a man born beyond the seas, who knew the Filipinos only 
by name and through our ideals and our heroes, spent the last 
years of his life in order to give shape, reality, and consistence to 
the dream of the forerunners of our nationality. 

" Mis ansias cuando apenas muchacho adolescente, 
Mis suefios cuando joven ya lleno de vigor 
Fueron el verte un dia, joya del Mar de Oriente, 
Secos los negros ojos, alta la tersa frente, 

Sin cefios, sin arrugas, sin machas ni rubor * * * " 

May the flowers of our gardens, the most delicate thoughts of 
our spirit, form the wreath of evergreen deposited by an humble 
and grateful people upon his tomb, over which the Stars and 
Stripes fly as proudly as over the trenches in Europe. 

From La Nacion, the organ of the Democratic Party: 

William Atkinson Jones 

The American Congressman, William Atkinson Jones, who 
lias since 1891 represented the first district of the State of Vir- 
ginia in the House of Representatives of the United States, has 
died. 

The death of this illustrious champion of our independence can 
justly be considered as a national loss by the Filipino people. 

There are but few men whose death has caused as profound ami 
intense mourning in a country not their own as in their own 
country. To this list of rare and exceptional men we must now 
add the author of our organic law. 

Naturally the death of so illustrious a person will cause great 
grief among the people of the State of Virginia and throughout 
the United States, but we believe that there will hardly be that 
unanimity and intensity of feeling in this respect that exists 
among all Filipinos who love the liberty of their country with 
respect to the death of the great champion of our cause in the 
Congress of the United States. 

There a great number of citizens doubtless opposed his ideas 
and his work in the House of Representatives. As regards the 
work done by Mr. Jones the public opinion in the United States 
was divided, as evidenced in the matter of the bills Introduced 
by him on the subject of Philippine independence. Hut here all 



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Filipinos, without any exception, have no other feeling toward 
the illustrious dead than one of the deepest gratitude for the 
efforts made and the work performed by him in the cause of our 
political liberty. 

It is a well-known fact that the fundamental law of our political 
regime was drafted by the great champion of our right to rule our 
own destinies. Everybody knows, likewise, that before drafting 
the present organic law Mr. Jones had introduced in the Con- 
gress of the United States a bill that responded fully to the 
real aspirations of the Filipinos, because there was embodied in 
it a provision designating an early date for the granting of our 
independence. 

That bill, generally known as Jones bill No. 1, failed to pass, 
but not through any fault of its illustrious author. Mr. Jones 
was convinced that we Filipinos are entitled to our national lib- 
erty, to establish a government of our own, suited to the peculiari- 
ties of our people, and he was not capable of renouncing a prin- 
ciple maintained by him with such energy. Jones bill No. 1 did 
not fail because Mr. Jones wanted it to fail; it failed because it 
was knifed by the traitors to our cause; it failed owing to the 
insidious labors, to the low machinations, to the vile and con- 
temptible Machiavellism of the Judases who wanted to sell the 
liberty of the Filipino people. Upon these traitors to the cause 
will fall the malediction of the victim of their baseness and of 
their villainous treachery. For the illustrious deceased the Fili- 
pino people will have nothing but words of eternal gratitude. 

The memory of the brave champion, of the man who devoted 
the inexhaustible energy of his privileged brain and of his great 
heart to the noble cause of making the American people do justice 
to the Filipino people, whose magnanimous trustee it has become, 
will be forever blessed by every Filipino. 

THE VOICE OF OUR POETS 

Our poets, the nightingales of the race, added a few 
fragrant flowers to the wreath dedicated by a loving 
people to the fearless champion of its liberties. 

Two of them, the most illustrious of our modern bards, 
elicited the following from their lyres: 



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I 

En el nombre de todas las gentes de mi raza, 
Al tumulo en que duerme llega mi humilde voz. 
Senor, velen tu sueno las alas de los angeles. 

Senor, descansa en Dios. 

II 

A la gloriosa America que hoy tu partida llora, 
Se une al pueblo a quien diste su libertad actual; 
Y el sol de nuestra ensena, en tu capilla ardiente, 

Sera el mejor cirial. 

Ill 

Del metal de las largas cadenas que arrancara 
De nuestras pobres manos tu noble genio afin, 
Hemos fundido todas las campanas que hoy lloran 

Tu inesperado fin. 

IV 

Senor, caiga en el triunfo de franjas y de estrellas 
Que envolveran temblando tu funebre ataud, 
La plata del anciano, la rosa de la virgen, 

Y el oro acrisolado de nuestra juventud. 



Por cuanto fuiste justo y noble amoroso 
Nuevo Aloises que, uniendo nuestra disperse grey, 
Guiaste a .luestro pueblo, bajo la santa y unica 

Aurora de tu Ley; 

VI 

Por cuanto de tus manos cayeron como flores 
Las santas cspcranzas de nuestra redencion, 
Y en nuestro sencillo de canas y de nipas 

Tu oombre cs oraciAn; 

VII 

Duerme, Seiior. Reposa del fatigoso dia, 
Uientras <los pueblos Qenos de tu alma y de tu ideal, 
Cruzan sus dos espadas de Qores y de lumbres 
Para guardar por siempre tu lecho sepulcral. 

Jksi's Halmoiu. 

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Manuel Bernabe sings thus : 

PADRE DE NUESTRA REDENCION 

Padre de nuestra redencion! La gente 
Que debe a ti su libertad naciente, 
Se postra de rodillas, y en tu frente 
Pone el beso amoroso del Oriente. 

Por tu Ley, que es supremo mandamiento, 
Dios te reserva el inmortal asiento. 
Tu Magna Carta es hostia y alimento 
Del pueblo en tres centurias irredente. 

Gracias a ti, la esclavitud longeva 
Huye a la aurora de una patria nueva . . . 
Quien no ama la eficacia de una prueba? 

Loor a la nacion americana 
Que te crio! Filipinas soberana 
Sera tu monumento de manana! . . . 

Manuel BernabIL 

THE MEMORIAL SERVICES 

These were held in the Marble Hall, famous in the 
annals of our history as the place in which the most 
memorable acts of national import have taken place, that 
august place which, in the eyes of the people, is the sole 
and sacred temple in which solemn patriotic rites may be 
performed. 

It was an historical evening, a memorable occasion on 
which the spiritual solidarity of the Filipino people was 
manifested more than ever before. It may be truthfully 
said that this people never gave a public testimony of its 
integral nationalism with such nobleness. 

It was not a funeral ceremony at which afflicted souls 
gave free rein to expressions of grief and love. On that 
occasion the Filipino people not only offered their hearts 
to the memory of Mr. Jones, but they confirmed at the 
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fore God and before humanity to be worthy participants 
of the universal treasure of liberty. 

A ratification of a covenant, a renewal of a vow — such 
was the spiritual significance of the memorial services of 
April 30. 

United in spirit, the Filipino people rendered homage 
to the great friend they had in Mr. Jones, and, at the same 
time, to the spirit of the glorious democratic traditions 
incarnated in that great man. 

the catafalque 

Severe and imposing, upon an elevated platform sur- 
rounded by burning tapers and sable hangings, like an 
altar in the temple of grief. At the foot of the catafalque, 
wreaths of all sorts and sizes covering a semicircular 
staircase, at the head of which stands a symbolical statue. 
In the middle, against a background of white and lilac, a 
life-size oil painting of the great democrat in whose honor 
the memorial services are being held. Around the glori- 
ous portrait, endowing it with a mysterious nimbus, big 
lighted candelabra. On the step above, four enormous 
pedestals supporting brass urns, from the bottom of which 
rise the thin vapors of incense. Above, crowning tin 
drapings that serve as a background, the coat of arms of 
the insular government, surrounded by an enormous 
wreath of metallic flowers. Everywhere in the hall, 
hanging from the walls or from the drapings of the cata- 
falque, wreaths and more wreaths, of all sorts and sizes. 

Some of these wreaths come from places far distant. 
From municipalities in the remotest parts of the islands. 
Most of them come from provincial governments and 

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the congregation 

On one side of the catafalque, on the platform on which 
Ihe latter stands, and to the left of the spectator, are the 
Governor General, Speaker Osmeiia, and President Quezon, 
the two last named seated to the right and left, respec- 
tively, of the one first named. On the other side of the 
platform and the catafalque are seated the other speakers 
of the evening, Messrs. Ramon J. Fernandez, Emiliano 
Tria Tirona, and Crisanto Evangelista. Filling the vast 
hall and the adjacent galleries and balconies, like a human 
ocean, without leaving the slightest interstice through 
which tardy arrivals could possibly make their way, there 
is the select and distinguished audience, reverent and sol- 
emn, bearing without a murmur the heat and discomfort 
of the moment. Outside, in the lobby, stands a crowd of 
tardy arrivals, disappointed and impatient. Outside of 
the building, on the square before it, the still larger crowd 
of the uninvited, standing, unmindful of the fatigue, con- 
templates in silence the endless procession of the invited 
who come and go, imagining themselves, perhaps, present 
at the ceremonies within. 

Notwithstanding the enormous crowds packed tightly 
in the hall and outside, not the slightest rumor profanes 
the austere silence of that solemn act consecrated to the 
evocation of the spirit of the beloved dead. 

THE PROGRAM 

Brief and select, worthy of the solemnity of the occasion. 
A few hymns, grand and mystical, that uplift the soul, and 
a number of deeply felt addresses, vibrant with emotion 
reflecting the unanimous sentiment of the people. 

In the musical program the attention was especially 
attracted by a beautiful " Response to Jones," the text of 
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Balmori and Manuel Bernabe, adapted to classical music 
by Hamilton Gray. It is a splendid song, worthy of its 
authors and of the noble spirit to whom it is dedicated. 
Here is the program in full : 

MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF THE LATE HON. WILLIAM ATKINSON 
JONES, MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND 
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS 

April 30, 1918, at 8.30 p. m. 
Program 

1. Music, " Nearer, My God, to Thee ". Dr. Lowell Mason. 

2. Hon. Manuel L, Quezon, 

President of the Philippine Senate, former Resident Com- 
missioner to the United States. 

3. "The Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away" H. H. Woodward. 

The radiant morn hath passed away, 

And spent too soon her golden store; 
The shadows of departing day 

Creep on once more. 
Our life is but a fading dawn, 

Its glorious noon, its noon how quickly past; 
Lead us, O Christ, when all is gone, 

Safe home at last. 
Where saints are clothed in spotless white, 

And ev'ning shadows never fall, 
Where Thou, Eternal Light of Light, 

Art Lord of all. 



Soprano: Alto: 

Mrs. Chas. II. Sleeper. Mrs. Irving Steinel. 

Mrs. Chas. II. Wieland. Miss Ethel Mahaney. 

Mrs. Harry Hawkins. Miss Sadie Livingstone. 

Tenor: Bass: 

Mr. .1. C. West. Mr. Irving Steinel. 

Mr. G. II. Tilbury. Mr. B. P. Lnkens. 

Mr. W. U. WesL Mr. Patstone. 



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4. Ramon Fernandez, Esq., 

President Philippine Chamber of Commerce. 

5. " Open the Gates of the Temple ". J. F. Knapp. 

A. C. Gonzales, baritone. 
Francisco Santiago, pianist. 

6. Hon. Emiliano Tria Tirona, 

Representative from Cavite. 

7. " Responso a Jones." 

(Letra de los poetas Ralmori y Bernabe, miisica de Hamil- 
ton Gray.) 

En el solar de amores 

De tu sepulcro ideal, 
Cayendo van las flores 

Del suelo de Rizal. 

Virina de tu lecho 

Vendra a ser cada flor, 
Y por tu amor deschecho 

Dira el Pueblo al Senior: 

Padre nuestro y Sefior, 

Glorioso y fuerte, 
Manda tu luz de amor 

Seiior de la muerte. 
Padre glorioso y fuerte, 

Manda tu luz de amor 
Tu luz de amor. 

Cuando so negra huella 

La muerte te imprimio 
Tu nombre fue una estrella 

Que en el espacio ardio. 

Por tu gestion homerica 

En pro de nuestro ideal, 
Alzan su voz America 

Y el Pueblo de Rizal. 

Padre nuestro y Sefior, etc. 

Con las sienes sin espinas, 
Libre del yugo de ayer, 
Hoy te canta Filipinas 

Y te oblaciona su ser. 



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Loor a ti en el presente, 

Loor en la Libertatl, 
En el Oriente y Occidente, 

Por toda la eternidad. 

Padre nuestro y Senor, etc. 

Soprano: Pianist: 

Srta. Jovita Fuentes. Sr. Francisco Santiago. 

8. Mr. Crisanto Evangelista, 

Representative of the labor union. 

9. "No Shadows Yonder" A. R. Gaul. 

No shadows yonder! 

All light and song! 
Each day I wonder, 

And say, " How long 
Shall time me sunder 

From that dear throng." 

No weeping yonder! 

All (led away! 
While I wander 

Each weary day . . . 
And sigh as I ponder 

My long, long stay. 

No partings yonder! 

Time and space never 
Again shall sunder, 

Hearts can not sever 
Dearer and fonder 

Hands clasp forever. 

None wanting yonder I 

Bought by the Lamb 
All gathered under 

The evergreen palm. 
Loud as night's thunder 

Ascends the glad psalm. 

10. Hon. Sergio Osmena, 

Speaker Philippine House of Representatives. 

11. Hon. Francis Burton Harrison, 

Governor General of the Philippine Islands. 
;:;. National hymn. 

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the orations 

When the beautiful notes of " Nearer, My God, to Thee " 
had died away and all hearts were still filled with mystical 
emotion the first orator of the evening, President Quezon, 
came forward and rested both hands on the balustrade 
surrounding the catafalque; then, with slow and grave in- 
tonation, he delivered his oration, an oration delicate and 
deeply felt, coming from the depth of his heart, full of 
remembrances mingled with filial affection, with sacred 
veneration. 

No person in the Philippine Islands can speak with so 
much authority of Mr. Jones and his titanic labors for the 
independence of our country as President Quezon, who 
was his collaborator and who shared with him the worry 
and anxieties of the struggle as well as the divine joy of 
the triumph. His address on this solemn occasion can be 
considered as the most finished and authentic recapitula- 
tion of the glorious part played by Mr. Jones in the history 
of our struggles for liberty. He said that Mr. Jones had 
the right to be ranked with the great liberators of the 
world and that as the father of Philippine liberty he was 
entitled to the undying gratitude of the Filipino people. 
He then outlined the various steps by which the Jones bill 
finally became a public law, ending in a fine burst of ora- 
tory calling upon the Filipino people to recompense their 
departed protagonist in gratitude for the work he had 
done for them. 

The second orator of the evening was D. Ramon J. 
Fernandez, the president of the Philippine Chamber of 
Commerce. He spoke on behalf of the business commu- 
nity. He analyzed Mr. Jones's work in so far as it affects 
the economic development of the country, voicing the 
opinion of the Filipino capitalists. His sincere eulogy of 
Mr. Jones's efforts on behalf of the Filipino people gave 
the lie to all who predicted that these same efforts were 

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bound to be fatal to the commercial stability of the 
country. 

As if to show that it is not only the wealthy classes of 
our country who are indebted to Mr. Jones for the great 
boon conferred upon us in the shape of the law that bears 
his name, a representative of the humble working class, a 
laborer, with hands hardened by toil in the shops, also 
spoke, voicing the unanimous sentiments of the Filipino 
proletariat in praise of Mr. Jones. 

This worthy representative of the laboring class, Sr. 
Crisanto Evangelista, made a most significant address. 
He spoke in Tagalog, and following is the translation of 
his address: 

I am here in accordance with the desire of the Federation of 
Labor and Labor Congress of the Philippine Islands to participate 
in these services, and though undeserving of the honor I shall 
address you on behalf of the workingmen of the Philippines. 

The laborers of the Philippines participate with all their hearts 
in our present mourning for the late William Atkinson Jones, 
Representative from Virginia. 

On this occasion, when the entire Filipino people manifests its 
heartfelt grief over the death of the great departed and endeavors 
to honor his memory, the laboring classes join in those demon- 
strations of grief and respect, because since we first heard the 
name of that distinguished person we knew that he espoused and 
championed our sacred cause, a cause for which we laboring men 
have on more than one occasion spilled our blood and laid down 
our lives, many thousands of us. 

And why is it that we honor him in this manner and show so 
much affection for him? It is because of his steadfast efforts to 
obtain for us a democratic government, a government of liberty 
and equality for all, in which each will be honored according to 
iiis work and his responsibility. 

You know what this means so far as we laboring men arc con- 
cerned. We know our rights, but will gladly submit to such a 
government. 

History relates to us astonishing things concerning the life of 
the peoples. And fortunately for us who are striving to bring 

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our government to high honors, there was born, across the sea, a 
Jones, who, without expectation of any reward, worked hard to 
improve our condition and put us on the way to become an 
independent nation. 

And after hard struggles in the American Congress, and outside 
of it; after strenuous work; after illness contracted through his 
tenacious efforts on our behalf made over there in America, Con- 
gressman Jones saw his endeavors crowned with beautiful suc- 
cess. His ideals prevailed, and with it those of the majority of 
the Filipinos — of the Filipino laboring men. 

The American people recognize that we Filipino laborers, who 
make up the bulk of the population, are not uneducated slaves, as 
some seem to make us out to be, but Christian, civilized, peaceable 
people, and lovers of knowledge and liberty. 

And knowing this to be so they gave us the Jones bill, named 
after the man whose untimely death we now mourn, which intro- 
duces important reforms in the government of the Philippine 
Islands. 

That bill not only threw open to us the gateway to liberty and 
independence and granted to the Filipino people more autonomy 
than it had ever had before, but — and this is why we are espe- 
cially grateful to our late Congressman Jones — one of its most 
important features was that concerning the right of suffrage. It 
reduced the age required in order to vote from twenty-three years 
to twenty-one. It modified the requirement for the voters with 
regard to the ability to write and read English or Spanish, making 
it read any language. Thus a voter need not know how to write 
and read any foreign language, but his own language is sufficient. 

These are the reasons why the representative of the laborers is 
here, shoulder to shoulder with the other representatives of the 
Filipino people, doing homage to the memory of a faithful servant 
of the principles of justice. 

William Atkinson Jones! What you have done is deeply 
enshrined in the hearts of the Filipino workingmen, for whom 
you have labored and suffered without rest or repose. We will 
do our best to constantly uphold the principles that you defended. 
We shall teach our children what you have done for us, and your 
name will be kept fresh in the remembrance of the Filipino 
workingmen. 

Farewell ! 



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Inasmuch as these services were an act of homage of 
the entire country, it was, of course, necessary that the 
voice of the opposition party be also heard. It was the 
leader of that party himself, Hon. Emiliano Tria Tirona, 
who spoke on its behalf in that harmonious concert of the 
representative voices of all the live forces of the nation. 
He lauded the efforts Mr. Jones had made to give the 
Filipino people the rights that all nations should have. 

Then came the leader of the race. His oration was, in 
everybody's opinion, the most eloquent and vigorous of 
all the addresses made, the one in which the spirit of the 
occasion was most concentrated. The sentences were 
brief, intense, crisp, of that subtle eloquence so charac- 
teristic of Speaker Osmena. It was an improvisation, the 
happiest, perhaps, of any produced by the fecund oratory 
of this illustrious tribune of the people. 

The stenographers were not able to take that beautiful 
address down in full, hence we can not give the complete 
text of it. We shall, therefore, limit ourselves to inserting 
as faithfully as possible some portions of it we were able 
to gather: 

Rather than weep over his memory, let us think over the signifi- 
cance of our national loss, of our present political situation on the 
globe. His death is like that of a great apostle, of one of our own 
people. lie is highly honored not only here but in his own coun- 
try, and as a proof of this will be the memorial service to be held 
in the House of Representatives at Washington on May 23. The 
Americans, like the Filipinos, have lost a great man, and the 
sorrow of both peoples is just. 

We have a number of friends and advocates of our cause in both 
Houses of the American Congress, but fate willed it that Con- 
gressman Jones, of Virginia, should distinguish himself from the 
rest in the matter of the Philippine cause. When his measure 
was introduced in Congress giving the Philippines a more ad- 
vanced form of government there were many who claimed that 
the bill was not carefully thought and that it would ruin the 
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order of our commerce; in short, that it would create untold 
hardship and misfortune in our country. 

But instead of the prediction of the prophets of disaster we 
have improved and extended our school system, our health service, 
and the different activities of our country, and instead of distrust 
and chaos we now enjoy peace and harmony, while the people 
have struck the road to progress. When we see the failure of the 
prophets of disasters we rejoice over the fact that we are justified 
in gathering here to-night. 

His work did not only affect the Philippine Islands but also 
our neighboring countries and the cause of small nations. The 
Jones law is but a mere continuation of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence of the American people in 1776. The Jones law teaches 
and stimulates small countries to aspire for the position we now 
enjoy and we shall enjoy in the future. He is indeed one of the 
greatest benefactors of the world, and whatever material testimo- 
nial may be erected in the United States or in the Philippines to 
his memory the Filipinos will always be ready to come forward 
and -vouchsafe that he will live forever in their hearts. 

Solemn and august, full of serene majesty, were the 
words of the Governor General (Hon. Francis Burton 
Harrison). Here they are: 

As an American I am proud to listen to the eulogies of Repre- 
sentative Jones by leading men of the Filipino race; as a friend 
of the Filipino I am glad to witness once more an enduring proof 
of their gratitude and recognition of the noble work done in their 
behalf by an American leader. 

Through many years of a long and honored life Mr. Jones 
labored earnestly and without self-interest for the liberties of the 
Filipino people. He was fortunate to live long enough to see a 
great part of his work crowned with success. He had also the 
satisfaction of knowing that his great fight for the immortal prin- 
ciple that government should exist only with the consent of the 
governed is the truest exposition of Americanism. Thus his 
struggle was not only in behalf of Filipino ideals but to uphold 
American principles. 

I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Jones well during the years 
of our congressional service together, and what always impressed 
me, in addition to the nobility and generosity of his character, 
was the absolute sincerity of his nature and his deep devotion to 

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principle. He had, moreover, a thorough understanding of the 
Filipino people, and a complete confidence in their abilities and 
in their future. 

It is impossible for me to describe how much I owe to him and 
to his memory. At all times and upon every occasion he was 
prompt, decisive, and unfailing in his generous support of my 
work here. He enjoyed the entire conlidence and respect of 
President Wilson, and has been of inestimable value to the Fili- 
pino people during these years of uncertainty so happily resolved 
by the passage of the law of liberty which bears his honored 
name. His work will now be taken up and carried on with vigor 
by his distinguished successor, Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee. 

As long as the Filipino nation shall endure the memory of 
Mr. Jones will live, not only in monuments and in name, but in 
the hearts of the people. Happy indeed is the man who can go 
to his eternal rest with the gratitude and affection of an entire 
race; who can enjoy to the last the blessing of " Well done, thou 
good and faithful servant"; who can carry with him the convic- 
tion that each and every Filipino, from the highest to the most 
humble, has secured a greater opportunity in life through his 
efforts. The pity of it is that he could not have lived on to see 
the independence of the Philippines he loved so well. 

This is a wonderful thing — this demonstration to-night in mem- 
ory of a man who lived and died twelve thousand miles away. If 
we could suppose his immortal soul to be still sentient of human 
emotions, we could believe that his heart would now swell with 
joy. Hut it is not enough that he should know of this in those 
immense and distant regions to which his soul has been drawn. 
He should know that through generations yet unborn his name 
will be mentioned with respect by orators on the platform, and 
that his memory will always " smell sweet and blossom in the 
silent dust " of the Philippines, lie will expect more from all of 
miu than respect and honor. When that glorious day shall come 
that you take your stand among the sisterhood of nations you 
must remember that Mr. Jones's spirit up above will be watching 
over you witli deep and tender solicitude; that through the trials 
and tribulations of a young republic, through sunshine and 
through shallow, in gladness and in sorrow, in failure and in 
success, his spirit will be with you, and. could hi' from far above 
speak to you in human voice, I am sure that he would call in 
clarion tone: " I expect ever} Filipino to do his duty." 



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final considerations 

"Life is as a tempestuous sea; happy is he who dies, 
because he finds the calm after the storm, the silence and 
repose after the day's hard toil ! " 

A consoling, philosophical view of death which is to the 
afflicted soul what the refreshing rain is to the thirsty, 
withered earth! * * * 

But what mysterious prestige possesses death that, 
although it is the natural and common end of all earthly 
existence, it overwhelms all with sorrow of such infinite 
greatness? Is it the disquieting enigma of the " great be- 
yond?" Is it the dread of the unknown and unexplored? 
Or is it the instinctive aversion, the natural horror of 
nothingness, of nonexistence? 

Not an atom is lost in universal life, which is an ebb 
and flow without end. * * * This is what one of the 
greatest thinkers of the world has said. For this reason 
all religions coincide in considering death as an obliga- 
tory transition, not from existence to nonexistence but 
from one existence to another, from one form of being to 
another form of being. A mere transformation, a simple 
renovation. 

And yet how afflictive and saddening is the spectacle 
of death! * * * And if the departed is one who was 
dear to our heart, how we suffer because of his departure! 

We know that he who has gone from us has merely 
gone to another, a better world, where he may be anx- 
iously waiting for us, where he may, perhaps, be watching 
our progress in this world with loving solicitude. And 
yet * * * 

We know that we are clay and light, spirit and matter; 
that as soon as the bond of life has snapped the dust of 
which we are made returns to the dust whence it came, 
while the essence of our being, the immortal light with 
which God animated our material frame, returns pure 

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and undefiled to the eternal rhythm of the infinite. And 
yet * * * 

Why mourn over the death of those whom we love 
when "persons who die are not lost, because they live 
and are present not only in the material world, hut more 
especially in the spiritual?" 

" The imperfect human senses are often unable to know 
and feel that presence, but in reality death only gives a 
new form to life. What a person was in life stays and 
remains after death. The good qualities and virtues of 
a person, as well as his defects, are brought out more 
vividly by his death and are not only retained indefinitely 
in the memory of his relatives and friends, but exercise a 
powerful influence upon the mind and character of his 
descendants." 

Who said Mr. Jones was dead? 

" Console yourself, you, who have lost a person dear to 
you; you have not lost him forever. He is no longer per- 
ceptible to your senses, yet he has not ceased to live. 
Perhaps in the mysterious twilight, when the darkness of 
the heavens descends upon the earth and the prayers of 
the earth ascend to the heavens, the light of the eyes that 
quickened your heart with love will form part of the light 
of some evening star smiling upon your long hours of 
meditation and grief; the flower your children caress in 
the garden may be a fiber of the heart of him who loved 
them so much, of that heart which beat only for their 
happiness; perhaps the affectionate arms which so often 
gave you courage in your hours of trial and despair will 
again caress you in the shape of a gentle breeze refreshing 
your perspiring brow in the moments of fatigue, or in 
the form of a fond recollection consoling your downcast 
heart." 



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In the Philippine Legislature 

eulogy delivered by hon. rafael palma, member of the 
first philippine senate, and secretary of the interior, 
on the occasion of the memorial session of the legis- 
lature in honor of the late congressman jones, author 
of the fundamental law of the philippines 

The event which we now commemorate, though seem- 
ingly long past, awakens anew in our soul the feeling of 
a fresh wound, of a deep pain. On the 16th of April of 
this year (1918) the distant cables spread from end to end 
of the archipelago the sad news that Representative Jones, 
of Virginia, was seriously ill. That message brought sor- 
row everywhere and the soul of the whole country felt 
greatly alarmed that it was about to suffer the loss of 
something priceless, something intimate, something dear. 
When a few days afterwards the cables flashed the still 
sadder news of his death there was general consternation 
in every home of this land; its inhabitants were sub- 
merged in profound mourning and meditation. 

It is not necessary to reason out, to look for the expla- 
nation of, this natural sentiment. The world lives by the 
law of contradiction, by opposing ideas, by conflicting 
interests, by warring passions. But amidst this contra- 
diction and antithesis the sentiment that compels man to 
recognize with piety, with love and gratitude the value 
of a benefit received, of a favor generously and disinter- 
estedly conferred, is uniform and universal. Hence the 
Filipino people, after the first moment of stupor and 
anguish, arose like a single soul to give vigorous expres- 
sion to its sincere condolence for the death of the illus- 
trious Congressman. And in the messages from the 
remotest corners of the archipelago and from our politi- 
cal, civic, and social organizations, as well as in the 
memorial services held in his honor, the tributes ex- 
hausted the limited vocabulary of pain, that vocabulary 

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that does not include, nor can it ever include, all shades 
and degrees of sentiment in the human heart. 

After all those manifestations of puhlic sorrow, after 
that spontaneous and sincere expression of love and grati- 
tude which the memory of Congressman Jones evoked in 
every heart, this legislature, as the embodiment of the 
Filipino people, can not forget him during this session. 
This legislature is of his creation, his own work, as well 
as of Congress, and it would be guilty of a breach of 
courtesy and gratitude if it were to let this session pass 
without honoring the memory of that great public man, 
who, belonging as he did to another race, thought so much 
of the Philippines and so identified himself with the in- 
terests of the Filipinos that, in justice and in truth, he has 
a right to claim for a place among our own heroes and in 
the sanctuary of every Filipino home and heart. 

William Atkinson Jones, in fact, more than a glory to 
America, is a glory to the Philippines. America might 
have been the scene of his efforts and triumphs, but the 
scene of his glory is the Philippines. It is here where his 
work exerted and will exert a beneficial and lasting influ- 
ence. It is here where his spirit and his talent have been 
and will be best understood and appreciated. It is here 
where the legislation that bears his name will yield its 
best fruits and where his services will be the object of the 
veneration and admiration of generations and genera- 
tions of Filipinos. 

It is strange, it is interesting, to note how, once in a 
while, history presents to the world men of extraordinary 
talent and character, of pure and elevated principles, 
whose work and whose influence, instead of being limited 
within the confines of their country, extend far beyond, 
leaving a profound impress on the ideas or on the politi- 
cal progress of foreign peoples. For this reason Lord 

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the United States than in their own countries; Pi y Margal 
and Morayta more popular in the Philippines than in 
Spain. It is because these men may belong to their own 
countries by blood or birth, but they belong more to the 
countries they have chosen for the scene of their conquests, 
as the object of their zeal and love, countries that have 
been nurtured by their doctrines and examples and have 
profited from their deeds and achievements. Thus the 
great minds who gave to the world the fruits of their 
thoughts — Franklin, Newton, Marconi — may in truth be 
said to belong to no country; they belong to humanity. 

It is true that in his State of Virginia William Atkin- 
son Jones will receive the honor and the respect due to 
one of its illustrious sons. But I doubt very much 
whether they could love him with the same piety and 
the adoration of the millions of Filipinos, to-day and to- 
morrow, who owe to him in their present situation the 
restitution of that God-given attribute of leading a life 
as free citizens of a country, a country whose domestic 
affairs and ultimate destinies they can mold in accord- 
ance with their own desires and principles. I doubt 
whether Virginian posterity shall bestow the blessings 
and prayers which will be lavished upon him by Filipino 
posterity that has seen the progress of the cycle of its 
emancipation — that cycle which has proved and is prov- 
ing so costly for other countries to go through — by means 
of that magnificent piece of legislation that now consti- 
tutes the corner stone of our political life. 

William Atkinson Jones is not only a glory which we 
may claim; he is besides a symbol — the symbol of true 
and genuine Americanism. He is for us one of the exam- 
ples of American tradition who reconcile their conscience 
and their judgment not with the changing opinions of the 
ordinary individual but only with the permanent interests 
of human liberty. He was not, like many, of the superfi- 



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cial class who considered the acquisition of the Philip- 
pines as a mere act of Providence or as a rich spoil of war 
destined to be a source of commercial profit or political 
aggrandizement to the Nation. On the contrary, he was 
of those rare and privileged minds who. placing them- 
selves above selfish national interests, sought inspiration 
from the noble spirit of those advocates of the great ideal 
who prepared the American Declaration of Independence 
and proclaimed the principle of liberty to the peoples of 
the world. 

Hailing from Virginia, saturated with the atmosphere 
of that land hallowed by the life and death of Washing- 
ton, he readily saw in the Filipinos' struggle for liberty a 
worthy object to which he could worthily dedicate the 
best efforts of his upright mind and of his generous heart. 
When, with wondering eyes, he beheld that, far from the 
confines of his country, war was being waged on a weak 
and defenseless people that did nothing but to uphold its 
right to liberty, surely it did not take him long to con- 
vince himself that the Filipinos were defending their 
cause with the same valiant spirit, with the same flaming 
passion for freedom which burned in the soul of the 
American colonists of '76 when they sought to cast away 
the chain that bound them to Great Britain. 

Therefore, since then, with indefatigable perseverance, 
witli unusual vigor and courage, with a clear vision of the 
role thai his Nation was to play in shaping the destinies 
of the world, he dedicated the last fifteen years of his pub- 
lic carter to the defense, in and out of Congress, of the 
sacred cause of Philippine independence. For years his 
efforts failed to enlist the attention of Congress. But 
when, in L912, the reins of power came into the hands of 
men of his party hi' immediately presented his first bill 
on Philippine independence, providing for the establish- 



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ment of a Filipino government, which after eight years 
was to be declared independent. The presentation of 
this bill left no room for doubt that the Democratic Party 
really intended to give a definite solution to the Philip- 
pine problem contrary to the predictions of those who 
believed that the promises made in the campaign would 
never be realized when the party came into power. The 
bill did not pass, due to the strong opposition it found in 
and outside Congress; but the efforts of Representative 
Jones did not wane. The defeat only urged him to re- 
double his energy and to strengthen a will confident of 
ultimate and complete victory. He thus introduced an- 
other bill on the same subject, which, after countless 
obstacles, became a law, the law which is at present the 
organic charter of the Filipino people, the influence and 
consequences of which, while apparently affecting only 
the people for whom it was intended, will undoubtedly in 
the course of time affect inevitably the welfare of other 
dependent peoples of the world. 

Must I speak yet of the patience, the vigilance, the 
tenacity of purpose and action, the spirit of sacrifice and 
of valor, which he showed during all that time in the 
defense of the Filipino cause as if it were his own cause? 
Did he expect any favor or reward from the Filipinos? 
No; he owed it to his conviction, to the traditions of his 
country, and for this reason stood alert, restless, but 
always firm, maintaining his point of view and his in- 
terest till the end, in the confidence — what do I say? — in 
the assurance that in this way his Nation not only was 
doing justice to a dependent people but was also show- 
ing faith in its traditions, those traditions which have 
come to make of the American Continent the universally 
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He saw what others did not see. With ample prophetic 
vision he faced not only the present hut the future, and, 
purging it of all prejudice of race and civilization, he de- 
sired to assure, more than the material supremacy, the 
permanent spiritual sovereignty of the United States in 
the Filipino heart. Was he deceived? No, a thousand 
times, no. Never have the Filipino people shown greater 
confidence in the American as he has under the gov- 
ernment estahlished by the Jones law. Never was the 
American flag held dearer and more respected, from 
north to south, in Luzon, in the Visayas and in Mindanao, 
as it is to-day when the clouds of uncertainty of yesterday 
were dispelled and the eyes could with confidence look 
into the future. Never has the Filipino loyalty been so 
free from timidity, so frank in the expression of truth and 
ready to guarantee internal order and maintain public 
tranquillity, and to offer itself to America in her hour of 
crisis. Never had the interest and the patriotism of the 
Filipinos been more active and energetic as in these days 
to develop the sources of wealth and of common pros- 
perity, to initiate and stimulate those enterprises so nec- 
essary to national greatness. Against all the auguries and 
predictions of the pessimists, the progress in all the walks 
of ordinary life in this country is moving with order and 
regularity, under the protection and encouragement of a 
clean, efficient, and economical government. 

These results plainly justify the confidence which Rep- 
resentative Jones has reposed in the Filipino people. He 
had faith in the goodness of man, in the work of creation, 
in human nature. He was of those who believed that the 
Creator has never denied a people the power and the in- 
telligence in govern its own life, promote its prosperity, 
and pursue its own well-being and happiness. With what 

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greeted the noble and gallant response of the Filipino 
people to the confidence placed in them, by the efficient 
use of the additional powers conferred. And when death 
closed the last page of his life Congressman Jones brought 
to the grave that greater satisfaction born of the convic- 
tion of having planted the good seed and having seen it 
bear abundant fruitage. If the teachings of his doctrines 
and of his works are to mark the path of the future, if the 
motives enunciated in the preamble of his law and writ- 
ten down by his own pen are to serve as the guide and 
measure of the future relations between the American 
and Filipino peoples, I do not have the least doubt that 
his siprit, wherever it might be, will feel satisfied at see- 
ing the realization of a task which death has cut short. 

It is just that we should pay our tribute to the memory 
of Congressman Jones, that we offer on this occasion the 
most precious flowers of veneration and love for him who 
has been the loyal champion, and will be, in history, the 
father of the Filipino nation. It is just that we vote reso- 
lutions expressive of our sorrow, in the name of the Fili- 
pino people whom we represent, and erect on his resting 
place in Virginia a mausoleum paid for in public subscrip- 
tion by the inhabitants of the Philippines. All this, and 
much more, the illustrious dead deserves for all that he 
has done for our country. We know not what the future 
has in store. But if the life of an individual is short, that 
of a nation is long. The Philippine nation must inevita- 
bly emerge some day, and the final outcome of the events 
in Europe, assuring for the future the formula of a just 
peace and the relations of sympathy and understanding 
among nations, large and small, not founded on violence 
but on free consent, would seem to favor and assure its 
realization. I hope, therefore, that the Filipino nation 
will prove that it never forgets those who worked for its 



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Memorial Addresses: Representative Jones 

well-being. And in the capital of the nation, when it 
shall have built its Walhalla (hall of fame), Congress- 
man Jones will figure among our greatest heroes and his 
statue will stand in a public place to remind not only the 
American people but the entire world of the truth of the 
maxim that " the greatest good, the most positive good 
that can be rendered all peoples is that of their own 
liberty." 



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